Bobby Fischer, the Brooklyn high-school dropout who became a Cold War icon by beating the Russians at their game – then turned into a paranoid recluse who cheered the 9/11 attacks – has died. Fischer, ...

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Armenian men play chess in Yerevan, 2010. Armenia's top chess players, lauded as heroes after winning the 2011 World Team Chess Championship this week, vowed to boost the small chess-mad country's ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Mad Chess Mermaids, Angels and Dragons join the classic game of Chess as 3 additional factions with their own units and abilities. Madness? No, this is Mad ...

An eccentric Russian regional strongman, famous for his leadership of the World Chess Federation and for claiming to have met aliens, has conceded his political career will soon be over. Kirsan ...