Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chess prodigy Beth Harmon, played by actress Anya Taylor-Joy, reads a chess pamphlet in Netflix's miniseries "The Queen Gambit." ...

Krishna and Radha playing chaturanga. Source: Wikicommons/public domain The Gupta emperor Kumaragupta (r. 414-455 CE) founded the Nalanda mahavira (monastic university), which is regarded as the world ...

Forty-five years ago, Donald Reents of Rockford put himself on the national chess map by winning the 1975 U.S. Junior Open Chess Tournament in San Diego, Calif. He said it didn’t take long for him to ...