Elite chess may carry an air of respectability and intellectual rigour, but that hasn't stopped players and fans from ...

But after looking into the bathroom stall he visited, they found the smartphone hidden in toilet paper. At first, Nigalidze claimed the smartphone wasn’t his, the Dubai chess organization said.

Move over, Su Doku! Chess grandmaster Maurice Ashley has a new mind game: pawn mowers. Ashley — the nation’s first black grandmaster — invented pawn mowers, and has now published a book of its puzzles ...

Chess champion caught using smartphone to cheat in bathroom, phone found hidden in toilet paper by: Kylee Scales Posted: Apr 13, 2015 / 02:39 PM EDT Updated: Apr 13, 2015 / 02:39 PM EDT ...

As a mild-mannered statistics professor, it's not often that I get contacted directly by the CEO of a multi-million-dollar company, much less regarding allegations of cheating and malfeasance among ...

Gaioz Nigalidze’s rise through the ranks of professional chess began in 2007, the year the first iPhone was released. In hindsight, the timing might not be coincidental. On Saturday, Nigalidze ...

They don’t call it the Game of Kings for nothing. Two Brooklyn schools swept two New York City chess tournaments Jan. 12, proving that, when it comes to the game of kings, Kings County is, well, king.

His red and white handmade chess set is made up of three-dimensional pieces including face masks as pawns, Clorox spray bottles as the knights, toilet paper as the bishops, Lysol aerosol spray ...

Paper figures on stage in a private paper theater museum. Photo: Martin Schutt/dpa UNESCO's Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage includes more than 100 traditions that are practiced in ...

Mehler is executive director of the U.S. Chess Center, a nonprofit group headquartered at 15th and M Streets NW. The facility has long been the hub of competitive chess in this area.

College chess was once dominated by the long-established genius-magnets. The first chess league in the U.S., founded in 1892, was a four-team confederation made up of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and ...