LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Texas Tech student and Grandmaster Aleksey Sorokin is this year’s chess U. S. Open Champion. The senior outlasted more than 400 players to bring the top prize home to Lubbock.

Chess has captured the imagination of humans for centuries due to its strategic beauty—an objective, board-based testament to the power of mortal intuition. Twenty-five years ago Wednesday, though, ...

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So-named because you'd have to be high to try it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. While it's something of a fool's game to ...

Magnus Carlsen lost to rival Hikaru Nakamura after misclicking his queen. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. World Chess Champion ...

An Iranian chess player, who competed in an international tournament without wearing a hijab, has been granted Spanish nationality, Spain’s Minister of Justice announced on Tuesday. She was ...

CHESS IS the sort of deep and rewarding game that you can spend an enjoyable lifetime failing to master. But even ardent fans might concede that, as a spectacle, watching two players think for long ...

In the midst of an ongoing national chess boom, a Whitney Young Magnet High School student started tutoring other students on how to play the game in his apartment courtyard. Then struck by the ...

DOVER — Some nights the 30-minute drive home from his weekly chess match brings angst, while other nights it brings euphoria. For Claude Fried of Dover, all of these experiences have paid off. The ...

Board games are not just fun ways to pass the time with friends and family. To play a board game, one must flash their competitive spirit and think strategically while maintaining the balance of ...

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