Now that’s a fool’s gambit. A Russian chess champion allegedly attempted to poison an opponent at a recent tournament in a brazen caught-on-camera move. Security footage from Aug. 2 appeared to ...

LAS VEGAS — On the first day of February, the new chess set appeared atop the circular glass table in the Mo Ostin Center lobby. Nobody with the UCLA men’s basketball team knew it was coming. But here ...

A security camera caught the moment a chess player allegedly attempted to poison her rival with mercury—and the clip has gone viral online. The Russian Chess Federation has suspended Amina Abakarova, ...

It’s no queen’s gambit. A Russian chess player is under investigation after allegedly being caught on camera spraying her opponent’s board with what authorities said was a substance containing mercury ...

Nationally ranked chess player, author, and instructor, Lauren Goodkind, will discuss her new book 50 Poison Pieces: solve 50 puzzles where the unprotected piece is toxic and talk about her life in ...

The second American Cup, a $200,000 event at St Louis for the top US grandmasters, ended suddenly on Sunday evening after Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So had each won a match and were deadlocked at 1.5 ...

The December issue of Toronto Life features an in-depth interview with Prime Minister Mark Carney, our pick for the most influential person of 2025. Plus, our obsessive coverage of everything that ...