The world of chess has been going through somewhat of an evolution in recent years, and it’s showing no signs of slowing down ...

A famous chess club in a slum of Uganda's capital that became the focus of the Hollywood movie Queen of Katwe is still producing champions - but faces a daily struggle to survive.

The wildly popular video drama series The Queen's Gambit has created a tsunami of interest in the game of chess. And New Brunswick has definitely caught the wave. A beacon of the provincial chess ...

"Chess trains all these skills without you knowing you are being trained in them, so it's a very powerful tool." Ms. Murphy didn't play chess growing up in Canada, and yet she doesn't lack for smarts.

Son Ari, 16 left, and daughter Taleen, 14 right, enjoy a game of chess in their backyard after being turned onto the game by their mother Tamar Sahakian, right, at their Toronto home on Nov. 18, 2020.

“The Queen’s Gambit” miniseries in 2020 portrayed the life of a fictional chess prodigy, Beth Harmon, who was continuously underestimated in male-dominated competitions.

The new Netflix series The Queen's Gambit, about a young female chess prodigy in the 1950s and 1960s, has generated the most buzz about the game that the Calgary Chess Club has seen in five decades.

An original puzzle game inspired by chess. Control a lonely Queen with shapeshifting abilities and defeat the enemy army. Move wisely, explore the wormholes on the board, take the enemy shape and ...

The Queen's Gambit has led to a huge interest in chess among people who didn't previously play or were perhaps novices, said McKim. A Fredericton game seller backed up that observation.

Fri, Apr 7: The game of chess turns one young girl's life of despair into one of hope and prosperity. As Angie Seth reports, Phiona Mutesi is now the hope for thousands of girls around the world ...