Exploring the Grob Opening, the world’s strangest chess opening

This unconventional path, rejected by purists and loved by eccentrics, has origins dating back to the nineteenth century but ...
NPR

This Nigerian chess master aims to raise money by playing the longest continuous game

Update - A few hours after this story aired on Friday April 19th, Tunde Onakoya, the Nigerian Chess master, broke the world record for the longest chess game - at 60 hours straight. He told one ...
The New York Times

Magnus Carlsen vs The World: chess grandmaster’s 46-day game against 143,000 players ends in draw

The world’s top-ranked chess player, Magnus Carlsen, has drawn an unprecedented game where he played against more than 143,000 players from around the world. The event set a new record for someone ...

10-Year-Old Chess Prodigy Bodhana Sivanandan Wins 'Near Perfect Game' Against Former Grandmaster

A 10-year-old British chess prodigy defeated world champion Mariya Muzychuk – putting her one step closer to becoming the ...
The Associated Press on MSN

Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky is remembered as a leader in the game's online surge

Meanwhile, grandmasters have slammed Kramnik on social media for how he treated Naroditsky. American grandmaster Hikaru ...

10-year-old chess prodigy defeats grandmaster in 'near-perfect game'

Chess prodigy Bodhana Sivanandan, 10, defeated former world champion Mariya Muzychuk in the first round of the European Chess ...
CNN

Magnus Carlsen held to draw by 143,000 opponents in largest ever online chess game after 46 days of competing

Magnus Carlsen is vastly successful against just one opponent. And even when he came up against many more, the Norwegian showed he can hold his own. The five-time world chess champion was competing in ...