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." ...

Throughout human history, one game has remained a staple of cultures, played by kings, nobles, citizens, and peasants alike. The game we are talking about is over a millennium old, and today is played ...

French mathematician Blaise Pascal famously called the game of chess “the gymnasium of the mind.” Slightly less famously, H.G. Wells called it “a curse upon a man.” In an 1897 essay, the science ...

Chess "is an entire world of just 64 squares," chess prodigy Beth Harmon says in "The Queen's Gambit." A runaway hit, Netflix's new miniseries follows the fictional life of Kentucky orphan and chess ...