World champions often have an indefinable mystique that seems to unsettle their foes and cause them to blunder for no apparent reason.

In sports that require athletic skill, an aging star’s decline is easy to understand. In chess, it seems strange.

There were no real surprises at the candidates matches to select qualifiers for the World Championship Tournament. The match between Levon Aronian and Magnus Carlsen was the only one that required six tiebreak games.

Gata Kamsky has never really said much about his reasons for coming and going. But this return is going rather well.

With summer (nearly) here, the time is right for improving your game.

Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria beat Krishnan Sasikiran of India in the last round of the M-Tel Masters in Sofia, Bulgaria last weekend.

Scholastic chess has become the game’s lifeblood. Almost 60 percent of United States Chess Federation members are under 18.

The United States Chess Championship begins Tuesday, but if not for Frank K. Berry, who put up $50,000, it might not be happening at all.

A grandmaster draw refers to an agreement between players to play a short, effectively uncontested game and share the prize money.

In his popular book “The Immortal Game,” David Shenk said great chess players were made, not born.