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

Earlier this month, a handful of the world’s greatest chess players gathered in an event space located in the lush greenery of Paris’ Bois de Vincennes. The spectacle was part of an ambitious vision ...

Hikaru Nakamura is one of the most famous chess players in the world today. He is known for his fast thinking, fearless style ...

An 8-year-old chess prodigy made history as the youngest player to defeat a chess grandmaster. The boy, Aswath Kaushik, beat Jacek Stopa at a chess tournament in Switzerland. Kaushik, who was born in ...

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

A Russian chess champion has been suspended after poisoning her childhood rival ahead of a match by smearing deadly mercury over her pieces. Amina Abakarova, 43, is reported to have said she attacked ...

Viswanathan Anand will compete at the Tata Steel Chess India after a six-year hiatus, marking a significant return to Kolkata ...

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

Diving chess is played at the bottom of a swimming pool, using a chessboard with magnetic chess pieces. The players dive ...

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

Kyler Murray considered his lost pawn and strategized his next move. But before Murray advanced his queen, Cleveland Browns receiver Amari Cooper extended a hand across the chessboard. “You won,” ...