"It has been said that chess, like love and music, has the power to make men happy and unhappy." So wrote Larry Evans, who parlayed his record as one of America's best professional chess players into ...

Larry Evans was a rarity in competitive chess — a five-time U.S. champion who wrote widely about the game, including a book once considered the chess players’ bible. A chess grandmaster, he also ...

In any chess game there is an opening, a middle game and an ending. Some games, especially for beginners, do not go through the three stages, but as your play improves it becomes necessary to learn ...

John W. Collins, 89, tutor to America’s top chess players including Bobby Fischer, died Sunday in Manhattan of undisclosed causes. Collins taught chess for almost 70 years, instructing such players as ...