FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. For 40 years, the chess world has been debating why ...

Chess grand master Magnus Carlsen is promoting a new tour that scrambles the game’s rules — and has prompted criticism from ...

Team Liquid expands into chess with two of the best players in the world, including arguably the greatest chess player of all ...

NBA legend Magic Johnson was thrilled as he reacted to Team Liquid signing the top-ranked chess player of all time, Magnus Carlsen to its roster on Friday.

The 16-year-old discovered chess through a best friend who introduced her to ... “I’m a very top player in terms of girls’ chess, but I wouldn’t call myself a prodigy,” Tang said.

Russian-born chess grandmaster ... for the players were such that you couldn’t compare it with the tournaments in the West,” Sosonko recalls. “They had carte blanche in all restaurants ...

Everyone agrees it’s an exciting time for chess. Some players ... “We have all the microphones and the cameras and so on to look into the brains of the best chess players of the world.” ...