Magnus Carlsen may be the best chess player in the world, but the Norwegian has ruled out a return to the classical World ...

Chess is one of the oldest recorded and most revered board games, and it dates back centuries. However, despite its cent ...

The chess world erupted over a cheeky joke from Chess.com asking players for “new name ideas” for one of the game’s pieces.

In a rare double unlikely to be replicated, the new world chess champion is an 18-year-old grandmaster from the Indian city ...

PARIS, March 17 (Reuters) - Magnus Carlsen feels he's still better than the young generation of chess players, but the Norwegian great is ruling out a comeback at the classical world championship.

Gukesh Dommaraju, 18, of India, captured the undisputed World Championship Chess Crown by beating Chinese world champion Ding Liren two Thursdays ago 7.5 to 6.5 in Singapore as was reported in the ...

MOSCOW — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow.

Chess.com, the online chess platform announced on Sunday a vote chess match between five-time world champion and World No. 1 ...

PARIS, March 12 (Reuters) - Chess is getting ready to make its foray into Esports with teams recruiting top players ahead of this summer's Esports World Cup, hoping to attract new audiences as the ...

He has recently promoted Freestyle, a tournament where the pieces on the back rank start ... During last year’s World Rapid Chess Championship, Carlsen fell out with FIDE after being punished ...