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Cornhole is a very popular lawn game, especially in the summer. Everyone can play, no matter their age or skill level.

Social services professional and community activist Charles Gussom owns clothing firm Black Pawn Game.

The Darwinian logic of your typical weekend Swiss tournament dictates that the big sharks -- usually with "GM" or "IM" before their name on the wall chart -- prey on the smaller fry in the early going and then square off against one another for the big prizes in the money rounds.

Wesley So Wesley So crushed Iranian Amin Tabatabaei in their semifinal tiebreaker playoff Friday for a 3-1 win and forge a title duel with fellow American Hikaru Nakamura in the FIDE Grand Prix in Berlin, Germany. After blundering away his winning chances in the second game of their two-game semis

Photo from tournament website Defending champion Wesley So drew his final round match to forge a three-player playoff for the 2021 US Chess Championships title Monday (Tuesday in Manila) at the Saint Louis Chess Club in Missouri. So split the point with Ray Robson after 26 moves of a Nimzo Indian

Former world champion Wilhelm Steinitz was born in Prague, achieved fame in the 1860s as the “Austrian Morphy” in Vienna, spent some time in England and lived the last 17 years of his life in New York. His successor, Emanuel Lasker, was born in what is now Poland, earned the title as a German, left Nazi Germany for the Soviet Union in the mid-1930s, and wound up, like Steinitz, living out his final years in the Big Apple. David Janowski, a contemporary of both men, was born in 1868 in what ...