The graphic is based on an extensive data set of chess games going back to 1850. The first moves are usually pawn moves, and the destination squares for the pawns are labeled on the chart.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with chess writer and grandmaster Andy Soltis about 11th World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer and the movie Pawn Sacrifice. In the summer of 1972, the world's attention was ...

Would Caruana see “21. c5!”? The chess world waited on the edges of their seats. If he did, Carlsen would not be able to capture the pawn right away, as that would leave his knight undefended ...

Ian Nepomniachtchi took off his blazer on the third move, a record-fast time, and he played with a captured chess piece like it was a fidget spinner. Across the table from him in a glass box in ...

Dvorkovich may have won the election, but he is far from having won over the hearts of all FIDE members, many of whom are still asking themselves: how did chess become a pawn in Russia’s politic ...

For the latest example of that sad-but-truism, see “Pawn Sacrifice,” director Edward Zwick’s biopic of chess champion Bobby Fischer, currently playing at Cinemapolis. As is de rigueur for ...

The new franchise-based Global Chess League (GCL ... his queen for a stalemate draw but Carlsen instead promoted a pawn to a knight, giving check and leading to a won endgame.