Mankind has been enjoying chess for well over a thousand years. Billions of games have been contested. For experts to search through millions of games and identify the finest among them, of course ...

World champion Vladimir Kramnik won this year's slow-paced, prestigious tournament in Linares, Spain, last Friday. The Russian grandmaster crawled into first place with two wins and 10 draws, ...

Garry Kasparov retired from professional competition after he won the tournament in Linares, Spain, this month. You could see it coming when he declared in January that he was through with world ...