This is the Game Of The Century, an amazing historical chess game between Donald Byrne and Bobby Fischer, played in New York on October 17, 1956. [Site "New York"] [Date "1956.10.17"] [White "Byrne, ...

On a cold November afternoon in 1844, players in Washington opened a chess game in the old, familiar way, with a pawn pushed into the center. But their opponents were not across the table, or even ...

The ancient game of chess is one steeped in tradition, with a history dating back centuries. It was once a game purely of endurance, a test of patience with titanic battles often taking days to find a ...