chess

Meet the World’s Foremost ‘Chess Detective’

By Christopher Beam

Magnus Carlsen Wins World Chess Championship

By George Steer

America Competing for Chess Title After 4 Decades

By Sean Gregory

Female Chess Players Are Furious They Will Have to Wear Hijab to Play in Iran

By Suyin Haynes
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Here's How to Play the Secret Game Hidden in Facebook

There's a new game to play besides chess

By Victor Luckerson

Female Chess Legend Hits Back at Sexism

“It’s not a matter of gender, it’s a matter of being smart,” Judit Polgar says

By Noah Rayman

Chess Master Says Knights More Intelligent Than Queens

"Rather than fretting about inequality, perhaps we should just gracefully accept it as a fact”

By Noah Rayman

Did Deep Blue Beat Kasparov Because of a System Glitch?

Feb. 17, 1996: Chess champion Garry Kasparov beats the IBM supercomputer “Deep Blue,” winning a six-game chess match

By Jennifer Latson

World Chess Championship Begins in Sochi

The first back-to-back rematch since 1990 takes place in Sochi nine months after the Winter Olympics

By Nolan Feeney

It's a War, Stupid!

This vocabulary of cowardice emanating from Berlin and Washington is as disgraceful as the black-is-white propaganda produced by Putin’s regime, and even more dangerous

By Garry Kasparov

Portrait of a Mathematician and His Three-Dimensional Chessboard

LIFE photographer Yale Joel recalls how he made a memorable portrait of a Hungarian mathematician who designed a three-dimensional chessboard.

By Ben Cosgrove

Check Out This Awesome Levitation Machine

For all your floating chess match, pillow & brick, Millenium Falcon needs

By Denver Nicks

The Superstar and the Sex Symbol: The World's Highest Ranking Chess Champions

When Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen lean over the chessboard at Chennai’s Hyatt Regency on Nov. 9 for Game 1 of the World Chess Championship, it will mark the coming together of the sport’s first superstar with its first sex symbol.

By Bobby Ghosh

Pictures of the Week: September 21 - 28

From the NFL touchdown controversy in the U.S. and Israelis observing Yom Kippur to China's first aircraft carrier and surfing with dolphins in Australia, TIME presents the best images of the week.

By TIME Photo Department

Bobby Fischer: Mind Games

On the 40th anniversary of his legendary 1972 victory over Boris Spassky, LIFE.com presents pictures of Bobby Fischer as a young man.

By Ben Cosgrove

Searching for…and Finding Bobby Fischer: Photographs by Harry Benson

Over the course of three assignments for Life Magazine in 1971 and 1972, legendary photographer Harry Benson chronicled the enigmatic Bobby Fischer at the absolute pinnacle of his chess career.

By Nicholas Hegel McClelland
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