C HESS IS the sort of deep and rewarding game that you can spend an enjoyable lifetime failing to master. But even ardent fans might concede that, as a spectacle, watching two players think for long ...

Estonian chess enthusiast Oskar Taimla got the chance of a lifetime in facing off against five-time world champion Magnus ...

FIDE director general Emil Sutovsky responded to Magnus Carlsen and leaders of his Freestyle Chess venture in a heated social media post.

Intelligence is attractive, and so are these 11 chess grandmasters and players, whose moves have us locked in checkmate.

Freestyle Chess head Jan Henric Buettner recently gave interviews to Norwegian media calling FIDE "stupid" and saying they ...

The World Chess Federation (FIDE) has responded to Magnus Carlsen’s bold suggestion that he is bigger than the organization.

A victory for Putin means, in due time, a re-charting of the entire map of Europe, to suit his vision of a Russian empire ...

Sports: India’s top chess talent D Gukesh added another feather to his already impressive hat on Thursday (Jan 23) after he ...

The governing body doubles down on its sole right to conduct World Championships and warns that a breach of contract will ...

THE MASTERS final is taking place between Kyren Wilson and Shaun Murphy at Alexandra Palace RIGHT NOW! Murphy charged into a ...

At 18, Chennai-born Gukesh stunned everyone and won the World Chess Championship, besting defending champion Ding Liren.

In 1997, in New York, humans suffered an enormous blow to their chess ego when Deep Blue, a chess computer, outplayed Garry ...