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AUSTIN (KXAN) — A competitive chess player from Austin is competing in a national tournament this week with the goal of winning another championship. Emily Nguyen, 16, has been playing competitively since she was 6, learning the…

Defending World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen (right) of…

Darpan Inani sits in front of his opponent and a personalized chessboard separates them. While he is waiting for his opponent to announce his move, he has already visualized the chessboard and pieces in his mind, and once his opponent…

UNITED NATIONS - I almost deleted the email. I'm not used to receiving authentic correspondence from an adviser in Norway's Permanent Mission to the United Nations, so I almost put it away with the other press releases of the day,…

Sunday marked the end of the most important chess tournament of the year, the London Chess Classic. The tournament was the third and final stop on the Grand Chess Tour, a newly formed circuit of three…

Has nature called?This is what the 25-year-old Georgian grandmaster tried to make everyone believe. But Gaioz Nigalidze was actually using his toilet breaks at the Dubai Open chess tournament on Saturday to check out playing tactics on a…

This weekend at the Super Nationals in Nashville, Tenn., The biggest event of the year for school chess competitors, parents will be treated to something that has never been discussed at the event before: how to be…