The falling pieces shattered the windshields of vehicles on the street below. You've heard of it raining cats and dogs, but in Washington, D.C., a different and more dangerous deluge could come ...

Danny Rensch gets sweaty when he plays chess. He gets especially sweaty when he plays a version of the game that has chess’s best and brightest dashing around a giant board, doing push-ups on ...

Heat of more than 100 degrees earlier this week did not keep people from standing in the sun and moving giant chess pieces around on the black-and-white checkerboard painted on the concrete in front ...

Alexis LaLoge, 8, Goshen, plays chess against her mother Bethany Wednesday afternoon at the Goshen Public Library on the library’s new giant chess board. The pieces are about 2 feet tall. The Goshen ...

A BATTLE unfolded on a giant nine-by-nine-metre chessboard last weekend but instead of chess pieces, the players were children, adults, caregivers and volunteers from the Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – They say life is like a game of chess, and that might be particularly true for those who stroll through downtown Grand Rapids from now on. A giant chess set was rolled out Thursday ...

A giant chess set was unveiled today in central London sparking interest from would-be grand masters and tourists. The 32-piece set, featuring two-metre high ceramic pieces on a glass chess board, was ...

The small Great Southern town of Kendenup — population 1,000 — is honouring its school chess champions by turning old street trees into chess pieces. Students from the Kendenup Primary School have ...

Other departments splurged on designer water bottles, staff trophies and presentation courses PRISON bosses bought inmates a giant £700 outdoor chess set. The purchase was revealed after the ...

P. H. Clarke was an England international who played eight times for his country at the Chess Olympiad and was captain at Havana in 1966 I am saddened to report the recent passing of Peter Hugh Clarke ...