In a bid to cater to casual fans, chess tournaments are introducing innovations in rules and gimmicks, and the players are ...

Gukesh is not in the 10 primarily because of the rating points lost in that event. There is another, possibly broader, ...

At just seven years old, Varun Turaga from Pleasanton is preparing to compete in the world chess championship.

As far as chess tournaments go, the Louisiana State Championship and Iowa Open are not what you would describe as big-time events. The highest-ranked players from either event last year didn't even ...

At Grand Swiss, Gukesh has been held to a draw by 14-year-old Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus, handed a defeat by 16-year-old American GM ...

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American GM Fabiano Caruana got the better of Arjun Erigaisi to give USA the advantage at the Checkmate India vs United ...

If you’ve heard anything about the ’80s musical “Chess,” it’s probably this: catchy songs, nonsensical story. When I posit as ...

Gukesh Dommaraju and Divya Deshmukh, Indian chess prodigies, faced off at the FIDE Grand Swiss in Uzbekistan. Their first classical format encounter e ...

Fabiano Caruana representing the United States captured the 2025 Grand Chess Tour (GCT) Finals title in São Paulo, Brazil, ...

When Danny Rensch was 12 he discovered he was a chess prodigy, but he was living in a religious cult in Arizona and this ...

Chess is popular worldwide, with over 600 million people playing it regularly in more than 200 countries. That has given Magnus Carlsen a lot of competition. And yet he's been the No. 1-ranked player ...