Chess’s most prestigious tournament is battling a splashy Saudi event. The post The Planet’s Best Chess Players Are Having ...

Jan Timman, the chess grandmaster who has died aged 74, was one of the world’s finest players from the 1970s through to the 1990s; in an era of Soviet dominance he was known as “the Best of the West”.

Elite chess players are abandoning engine-approved strategies in favor of wild, hard-to-predict moves designed to break ...