How do you solve a problem like “Chess”? With music and lyrics by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus (of ABBA) and Tim Rice, and now with a new version of Rice’s book by Danny Strong, “Chess” tells of ...

Chess,” with songs by Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus and “Evita” lyricist Tim Rice, is a two-hour-forty-five-minute slog ...

With music by ABBA’s Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, the 1988 show revolves around rival American and Soviet chess wizards ...

"It would have been one of the best I’ve ever attended" The post Chess on Broadway review: the story still stumbles, but the ...

The quintessentially ’80s musical is back on Broadway, in all its bombast.

Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher are extraordinary in "Chess," an ABBA Cold War musical that's as messy and ...

Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher lead a fruitlessly revamped version of the 1980s synth-pop extravaganza ...

THE combination of ABBA songs, chess, and the Cold War in a musical feels like it shouldn't work. But the cast of Chess The Musical at Norbury Theatre in Droitwich proves that wrong. Set during the ...

It doesn’t even rate as a footnote as the bombs fall and families cower in bomb shelters, but there is something inexpressibly sad about seeing two of the world’s great chess-loving nations at war.

World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen has ignited a firestorm in the chess world, openly challenging the leadership of FIDE President ...

Three years ago, Ukrainian chess player Evgeny Shtembuliak was enjoying the most successful year of his career — he had won the World Junior Chess Championship, achieving the title of grandmaster. Now ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Two weeks ago, the world’s top chess authorities voted to sharply rebuke Russia for ...