Two of the world’s best chess players took on 26 kids Monday in a match of speed chess, a prelude to a three-day invitational in Santa Rosa. The boy rested his head on a picnic table overlooking a ...

Soviet-Armenian grandmaster and a previous world chess champion, Tigran Petrosian was noted for his impenetrable defensive playing style. He was at times referred to as the drawing master. Petrosian ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - Villa de Benasque International Chess Open ongoing in Spain is next to be over; one tour remains till its ending. In the 9th tour, Armenian Grandmaster Tigran Petrosian playing with ...

A chess Grandmaster has been banned from the Dubai Open Chess Tournament after being caught using an iPod touch running a chess app, reports Dubai Chess. Gaioz Nigalidze, winner of the Georgian ...

For we proud members of the Cult of the Tiger, Alexey Bezgodov’s eagerly awaited “Defend Like Petrosian” (NewInChess, 269 pp. $24.95) is a fascinating but frustrating survey of the life and works of ...

Most nights, Moscow’s Estrada Theater is alive and kicking with song-and-dance troupes. For the past two months, though, sellout crowds have packed the old hall to watch two men sit for hours at a ...

P. H. Clarke was an England international who played eight times for his country at the Chess Olympiad and was captain at Havana in 1966 I am saddened to report the recent passing of Peter Hugh Clarke ...