The main narrative explores Alekhine’s state of mind during his last days, during which, pressed for money and uncertain he can defend his title against a new generation of chess players, he ...

Alekhine Nouri after he downed Russian Matvey Savchenko in the eight and penultimate round of the Asian Junior Chess Championship in Sri Lanka on Wednesday night. The win put the 19-year-old two-time ...

Another champion, Alexander Alekhine, thought chess was an art, an opinion that was corroborated by one of the world’s most famous artists, Marcel Duchamp, who quit making art to focus on chess.