Fame, glory, and cold hard cash are on the line this week at an elite level of competition: the 2026 American Cup at the Saint Louis Chess Club. “It’s the crème de la crème of the American chess world ...

A Dutchman, he was considered the best player outside the Soviet Union for two decades, although he described himself as “lazy” and was open about using alcohol and drugs early on.

An 8-year-old chess prodigy made history as the youngest player to defeat a chess grandmaster. The boy, Aswath Kaushik, beat Jacek Stopa at a chess tournament in Switzerland. Kaushik, who was born in ...

Over the last few centuries, behavioral psychologists have documented all kinds of ways of modifying our actions and the ...