It was the most popular opening for the first three centuries of modern chess. Paul Morphy relied on it heavily during his meteoric rise to world supremacy in the mid-19th century. Bobby Fischer ...

GIVING odds is a tradi tional way to level the playing field when two players of much different playing strength sit down for a game. The stronger side removes one of his pieces, from a single pawn to ...

The most aggressive opening in chess is called the King’s Gambit. On the second move, White sacrifices a pawn that typically protects his king for a blitzkrieg assault on Black. It’s audacious. With ...