Russia is no stranger to unique poisonings. State agents have been known to use everything from polonium-laced tea to the deadly nerve agent "novichok" when making assassination attempts against both ...

The rivalry between two chess players in Russia took a bizarre turn when one of them was accused of poisoning a game board with liquid mercury, making her opponent sick. The suspect, chess player ...

Ronan John admires his giant chess board Monday, Oct. 6, 2025, at Davy Memorial Park in downtown Moorhead. He spent the last two years designing and building the board for his Eagle Scout project.

“We relate chess to life,” says Ge Wright, program coordinator for Make a Chess Move (MACM) – a growing east Denver-based nonprofit that provides both in-school and out-of-school programming and ...

It was the encyclopedias on painting and sculpture that his parents got that first ignited a young Marcos Ramirez’s interest in visual arts. After earning a law degree in Mexico, then working ...

Grandmasters and other chess pros from around the world have applauded Naroditsky as an honorable ambassador of the game who ...