If a fervent chess player seeking a challenging game partner doesn’t happen to live in a major city such as St. Louis, ...

The journey from the Von Neumann to the Niemann affair has much to teach us about the changed landscape of the sport ...

A new book by Jordan Himelfarb follows the game’s rising young players, including the reigning world champion Gukesh ...

In its opening moments, Untold: Chess Mates contextualizes a cheating scandal that rocked the top tiers of competitive chess in 2022—which spiraled out of control with allegations of a player using ...

A three-time National Chess Champion breaks down what playing chess against LLMs can teach us.

In 2024, Vaishali and Praggnanandhaa became the first brother-sister duo to play in the Candidates Tournament.

A new chess club in Merrill is helping players learn the ropes, and for some, the game is more than it appears.

Joint-leader R Vaishali (7 points) needs to beat last edition’s winner Tan Zhongyi in the 13th and penultimate round on Tuesday, with black pieces, to.

For more than a decade, the Sinquefield Cup has been a key stop on the Grand Chess Tour, bringing together some of the world’s top players in a competition that helps define the highest level of the ...

The Uzbek 20-year-old won first prize unbeaten but his girlfriend, Bibisara Assaubayeva, finished second to the lowest seed in the Women’s Candidates ...

Indian chess prodigy Nihal Sarin brushed off an online opponent’s rude gesture earlier this year, focusing instead on his game. Since then, he has surged in form, reaching a career-high rating of 2723 ...

A Canadian journalist’s book analyses an ecosystem proliferated by genius, prodigies, oddballs and eccentrics, all of this sometimes in one person ...