Back in the early 1900s, chess players thought they had it all figured out. The rules were simple: grab the center with your pawns first (e4, d4), then develop your pieces. Then along came rebels like ...

There’s a moment in many great games where nothing flashy happens. A pawn is moved. A bishop steps back. A rook shuffles slightly. But if you ask yourself the question: What was the opponent ...

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Chess-FIDE reinstates Russian and Belarusian teams in official contests The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has voted to allow teams from Russia and Belarus to return to official competitions ...

Grandmasters do not, as a rule, overlook one-move threats. But when they do, there is a good chance that a retreating knight is the culprit. Take the 1956 Candidates tournament, where Tigran Petrosian ...

Norway’s world No 1 beat the world champion, Gukesh Dommaraju, 5.5-0.5, and also edged the world Nos 2 and 3, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana, both by 3.5-2.5 ...

python-chess is a chess library for Python, with move generation, move validation, and support for common formats. This is the Scholar's mate in python-chess: ...

python-chess is a pure Python chess library with move generation, move validation and support for common formats. This is the Scholar's mate in python-chess: ...