T his is how the story of a great chess grandmaster usually begins. A parent or teacher discovers an exceptional mind: a ...

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 ...

Chennai Grand Masters is an elite-level annual closed tournament held every year in what is widely considered the chess ...

A decade ago, Hassabis's lifelong enduring love of play and AI led to AlphaGo beating the world's deepest board game. The ...

IT’S long been seen as the bastion of geeks and brainiacs but the world of chess has had its fair share of shocking scandals.

Last week, the streaming giant released new feature-length documentary, Untold: Chess Mates, and it has since climbed up the ...

Last February, Nihal Sarin was busy playing a game of online chess in TakeTakeTake’s Titled Tuesday event. His opponent was Armenian player.

And yet, as a three-time National Chess Champion and a two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, I love to play against them. Not ...

Giovanni Lacroix talks with the chess commentator about the impact of social media and esports on the age-old game ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bodhana Sivanandan still needs a booster seat to see the chess board, but that has not stopped her from becoming one of the world’s best players. The fifth grader is now the youngest-ever female ...