For many, remembering where they’ve left their keys and cellphone is challenge enough. Remembering the layouts of 48 chess boards well enough to play and win most of the games, then, would seem ...

Today in Saint Louis, Mo., one woman will take on 30 opponents in a simultaneous chess exhibition. DORSA DERAKHSHANI: I'm supposed to get white, which white starts first in chess. So I already know ...

As the Hutchinson Community College track team noisily began warm-ups on the Gowans stadium track Monday afternoon, a silent but intense contest was going on next door. Gabe Purdy was on his 18th ...

An Israeli grandmaster is hoping to break the world record for playing simultaneous games of chess. Alik Gershon is taking on 525 opponents in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square. He needs to win 80% of the games ...

JERUSALEMJERUSALEM — An Israeli broke the record for most simultaneous games of chess played by an individual on Friday, seizing the title from a chess master from his country’s archenemy, Iran.

An 87-year-old Hungarian woman aims this weekend to set a world record by beating 1920s Cuban chess grandmaster Jose Raul Capablanca at his own game: simultaneous play. Since the 1950s, Brigitta Sinka ...

BRATTLEBORO -- The public is welcome to try their hand at playing local chess champion Eric Strickland, when he presents a Simultaneous Chess Exhibition on Friday, Sept. 6, at 5:30 p.m., in the parlor ...

After decades spent playing simultaneous chess, an 87-year-old Hungarian pensioner has clinched a world record by finally overtaking a total set by 1920s Cuban grandmaster Jose Raul Capablanca. Almost ...