I have spent the last seven weeks playing the GoChess Wizard Lite. In that time, I have introduced three friends to chess, ...

A Russian grandmaster has been banned from world chess championships for at least a year over his cheating allegations ...

The international governing body for chess has suspended former world champion Vladimir Kramnik for at least a year. The ...

Earning an official FIDE (the primary governing body of chess) rating has never been easy. A player must participate in FIDE-rated tournaments, which are organised under strict regulations and often ...

R Praggnanandhaa made history and headlines on Friday: he became the first Indian to win the prestigious Norway Chess tournament, and - perhaps more remarkable - did both the double over Magnus ...

In September of 2022, Magnus Carlsen had won 53 consecutive classical chess matches.Then, he sat down across from Hans Niemann. Carlsen, then 32 and a five-time World Championship, was widely ...

If a fervent chess player seeking a challenging game partner doesn’t happen to live in a major city such as St. Louis, Missouri, home of the World Chess Hall of Fame, the next best thing might be ...

You’re reading The Sporting Scene, Louisa Thomas’s weekly look at the world of sports. When Gukesh Dommaraju was a small child growing up in Chennai, India, his parents wanted him to be an athlete.

The journey from the Von Neumann to the Niemann affair has much to teach us about the changed landscape of the sport There really is, it turns out, a true story involving cheating in chess and a ...

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