LONDON — The chess grandmasters sounded like boxers trading pre-fight insults, but the jabs lacked the real heavyweight muscle of Muhammad Ali or Smokin’ Joe Frazier in their prime. British challenger ...

World chess champion Garri Kasparov and challenger Anatoly Karpov, a fellow Russian, played to a draw Monday night in a listless opening of their world championship rematch. Kasparov, 23, playing ...

Losing can be traumatic. Boris Spassky seemed never to fully recover from a one-sided defeat in a 1974 match with Anatoly Karpov. And Viktor Korchnoi’s play permanently dropped a notch after being ...

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 was back. There was the familiar sight: elbows on the table, hands on his head, pieces humming. It wasn’t the first time he had been spotted at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of ...