FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. For 40 years, the chess world has been debating why ...

It’s chess to an extent but then once ... sat behind screens instead, moving their pieces around the board. To escape the ultra-competitive world of professional sports, athletes often ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world ... Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour, that Carlsen co-founded. The twist: The tour randomizes the starting positions of the chess board’s most important pieces ...

D Gukesh ends the opening day of the Weissenhaus tournament tied on 2 points with Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura and Vincent Keymer after collecting four draws along with a defeat. Fabiano Caruana ...

If you scrunch your eyes up just as an offensive line sets for a play, the outlines of the players look like chess ...

FIDE has dress codes for international events, where suits, collared shirts, and slacks are the norm. Players will sometimes push the bounds of that dress code in the sake of comfort, but denim jeans ...

In the other opening quarter-final games, Magnus Carlsen and Vincent Keymer defeat Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Alireza Firouzja ...

"I tried to think what his career could evolve like and generally set a charter ... with the world around him, which is based on certain values. Respect for the game of chess, respect for people ...

From extraordinary record-breaking feats to exceptional intellectual prowess, Nigerians have consistently pushed beyond the ...