The late poet Charles Simic was a chess prodigy who used the queen and her court to conjure a hellscape that invoked a childhood in war-time Belgrade.

Scholar Jenny Adams examines the homosocial facets of the game through literature of the Middle Ages.

The game was a way for early modern women in royal courts to prove their skill in political life.

Visit your local public library today and you may find rows of kids playing computer games, or even a couple of Xboxes. Gaming at the library is a tradition that goes back to the 1850s.

Chess and artificial intelligence have been matched almost since the beginning of AI research, but now there's a new game in town. 

László Polgár raised all three of his daughters to become chess prodigies.