Gukesh Dommaraju returned home to jubilant scenes at Chennai International Airport on Monday having become the youngest ever chess world champion last week. The 18-year-old beat defending champion ...

Norwegian chess player Magnus Carlsen participates at the Energy Denmark Champions Battle 2019 in Circus Building, Copenhagen, Denmark May 22, 2019. (Claus Bech/Ritzau Scanpix/via REUTERS) ...

A small object that was discovered in what's now southern Jordan seems to be the world's oldest known chess piece. The retangular piece of rock with two horn-shaped points on top looks like rooks ...

SAN DIEGO — A palm-sized sandstone object found in 1991 at an Early Islamic trading outpost in what’s now southern Jordan appears to be the oldest known chess piece. This roughly 1,300-year ...

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