Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen showcased his brilliance once again with a come-from-behind victory at the 2026 ...

On April 17, Sotheby’s will auction some valuable items from the chess library of GM Lothar Schmid, best known as the arbiter ...

Twenty-one-year-old Trisha Kanyamarala became the first Irish woman to be awarded the title of woman grandmaster (WGM) in chess, following her high standard of play at the London Chess Classic ...

Throughout the years, chess sets have been developed to match the evolution of the game of chess itself. In the past, sets ...

Sergey Karjakin entered FIDE's top 10 chess rankings before a correction removed him, sparking controversy and discussion in ...

The history of chess is filled with prodigies who seemed destined for greatness before they became adults. Interestingly, elite chess players spend thousands of hours training before they reach their ...

With Magnus Carlsen winning the 21st world title of his career after being crowned the inaugural FIDE Freestyle Chess world ...

Argentina’s Faustino Oro and Turkey’s Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus, both in their early teens, are taking the chess world by storm and ...

GM Matthew Wadsworth won in Ryde on tiebreak, Scottish GM Matthew Turner also shared first, while in Graz Scotland’s Freddy Waldhausen Gordon, 15, qualified for the IM title ...

The Russian head of world chess, Arkady Dvorkovich, has two faces - a politically-correct one FIDE wants the EU to see, and a pro-war face that attacked Ukrainian 'Nazism' ...

The world's first chess franchise league, a brainchild of Anand Mahindra, has cracked the code to turn an intellectual sport into a snazzy, audience-focussed product ...

Around a decade after he picked up chess, Mr Siddharth made history when he became Singapore’s youngest chess grandmaster in 2024 at age 17. He and his family had become Singapore citizens the ...