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 ...

Magnus Carlsen, a 34-year-old Norwegian, is among the greatest chess players of all time.

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

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

A FIDE Master, named Naim Haque, from the Asian country revealed that his student defeated Carlsen in an online chess tournament.

In a world where robots fold laundry, is it too disconcerting to have one come for Olympics gold, asks Satyen K. In 2023, a ...

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

At WACA, Anand enlisted elite GMs like Poland’s Grzegorz Gajewski (for opening theories), Sandipan Chanda (mid-game prep), ...

As AI has become more and more sophisticated, it appears that many of the jobs (and skills) that were what set people apart ...

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 ...