In chess, even a measly draw can be a brow-sweating, teeth-clenching, mind-melting epic. On Monday, a gorgeous autumn day in New York City, Norway’s Magnus Carlsen, the world champion and No. 1 ...

In an extremely wild game where the position was so sharp that the evaluation bar was dancing every move. Eventually it came ...

One has to be better than good to win at the World Chess Championship. One has to be nearly perfect. Fabiano Caruana, the world No. 2, was reminded of that toda… ...

How ‘Draw’ occurs. Draws in chess can arise in multiple ways: Fifty-Move Rule: If fifty consecutive moves occur without a pawn move or a capture, a draw can be claimed.

Challenger Anatoly Karpov, who destroyed a possible winning position with a careless pawn move, settled for yet another draw Thursday with champion Garri Kasparov in their battle for the world ...

The set, with its two-foot-tall king, has begun drawing a crowd to the Deltona Chess Club matches on Saturdays from 1 to 5 p.m. ... Kiser had a two-pawn advantage and offered Emmanuel a draw.

World chess champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway, playing the Black pieces, survived some early pressure and then mismanaged a favorable position to draw Russian challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi in the ...

Bobby Fischer was the most brilliant chess player in history, a grandmaster at 15, world champion at 29, genius tactician, ruthless competitor, more imaginative and dominant in his prime than ...