It’s also well-known that playing as white offers at least a slight (but sometimes decisive) advantage during any given match ...

Jan 6 - Hikaru Nakamura split the chess world this year by reaching the Candidates Tournament after thrashing minnows at a ...

Another world chess title will be up for grabs next month after the launch of the first official FIDE Freestyle Chess World ...

Chess960 involves shuffling the pieces at the back of the board, and an analysis suggests doing so can increase the ...

Antonis Loudaros, a longtime educator and chess coach who founded The Green School’s chess program nearly a decade ago, ...

While Russian chess is running on fumes these days, other chess empires have emerged in nations like China, USA, India and ...

Dec 28 (Reuters) - Magnus Carlsen pushed away a camera after losing to Vladislav Artemiev at the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz ...

PHOENIX, Ore.- The Medford Oregon Chess Club held its monthly tournament at the Phoenix Branch Library today. About a dozen ...

Tata Steel Chess India 2026 beginning on Wednesday, will see the players vie for top honours in rapid and blitz events. Join Viswanathan Anand as he faces rising chess stars in Kolkata’s festive ...

On a winter evening in Kolkata, when the fog hangs low over the Maidan and the city's iconic hand-pulled rickshaws creak ...

Jordan Harrison’s quietly devastating play proves far more affecting than the musical revival of the long-troubled Chess.