GM Fabiano Caruana was crowned the winner of the 2022 U.S. Chess Championships on Wednesday after scoring an unbeaten 8.5/13 in St. Louis. GM Ray Robson did all that he could to equal Caruana's score but couldn't break through against GM Jeffery X...
IM Michael Basman, a strong British player in the 1960s and 70s, founder of the UK Chess Challenge, prolific author, and most of all an innovator both on and off the chessboard, died of pancreatic cancer on Wednesday, aged 76. Most famous for his ...
On June 19, 1996, GM Bobby Fischer, hoping to enhance the creative potential of chess, announced his invention―a brand new version of the game―Fischer Random.
Twenty-six years later on the 50th anniversary of his world championship victory...