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 ...

The rivalry between two chess players in Russia took a bizarre turn when one of them was accused of poisoning a game board with liquid mercury, making her opponent sick. The suspect, chess player ...

The International Chess Federation recognizes Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha with an official rating, meaning has defeated at least three players in the ranking ...

Exclusive: Daniel Naroditsky “felt weight on his shoulders” from cheating allegations, says Peter Giannatos, who found him ...

Gukesh Dommaraju, the 18-year-old chess prodigy from India, has unseated China's Ding Liren to become the new world chess champion. Born in 2006, Dommaraju is the youngest world champion of all time, ...

Ask 20-year-old Praggnanandhaa, who has visited a fair few cities as a top chess player, if he has ever made attempts to see ...

Magnus Carlsen, the chess grandmaster who has become the public face of the game, was forced into a draw after an intense game played over 6 1/2 weeks — and it only took some 143,000 opponents working ...