The second game in the Professional Chess Association world championship between title holder Garry Kasparov and challenger Viswanathan Anand ended in a draw after 29 moves yesterday. The first game ...

World No. 2 Hikaru Nakamura needed to hit a minimum number of games for a shot at the world championship. He sparked a firestorm by beating up on lower-ranked players to get there.

It’s sort of amazing that it’s taken so long for Hollywood to get around to dramatizing a fascinatingly bizarre event that riveted the world’s attention in 1972 between the Watergate break-in and the ...