There's no barrier to chess training, so anybody can pick up a book or watch YouTube videos to learn the game. A group of researchers examined people who do and do not play chess, to learn whether ...

Chess, mathematics and music are the only three fields known to produce child prodigies. What they all seem to have in common is a lack of maturity rather than a high degree of intelligence. Yet the ...

MAGNUS Carlsen has retained the world chess championship title with a win over his US challenger Fabiano Caruana. Carlsen won the world chess title in 2013 at age 22, and then successfully defended it ...

You'll need perfect eyesight and good perseverance if you're to stand any chance of succeeding. Furthermore, you'll also have to use all your cognitive senses to ensure you don't fall at the first ...

Harika Dronavalli, who recently secured a bronze medal in the Women’s World Chess Championship, says the secret to succeed in chess is not high IQ but to practice and study chess rigorously. India’s ...

A talented 13-year-old schoolboy has made it into the top 1 per cent of Britain’s brightest people. Niraj Kumar, of Birmingham, has been welcomed into Mensa after scoring 160 in the high IQ society's ...

Magnus Carlsen has won the world chess championship 2018 and is said to be one of the best ever chess players. He's the essential information on the Norwegian grandmaster MAGNUS Carlsen has retained ...