One day in May, chess grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura was watching the last two moves of Felix “xQc” Lengyel’s online chess game. Ever-patient, Nakamura had been mentoring Lengyel, a top Twitch streamer ...

The AIM Chess League runs from July to October, beginning with an online league, followed by offline qualifiers in September, ...

The chess Candidates tournament opens on Sunday with a throwback feel — eight players, long-time controls ​and the game in ...

Chess has a reputation for cold logic, but Vladimir Kramnik loves the game for its beauty. “It’s a kind of creation,” he says. His passion for the artistry of minds clashing over the board, trading ...

When Magnus Carlsen started playing chess at the age of eight, he grew up in “a hybrid generation,” mainly playing on the board, he tells Euronews Next in an interview. Fast forward 25 years and the ...

Erling Haaland and Mohamed Salah are among the Premier League stars "addicted" to chess, helping to spark a surge in the game ...

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 ...

Russia's chess ​federation must stop organising events and asserting control in occupied Ukrainian territories within 90 days ‌or face suspension of up to three years, the Court of Arbitration for ...

The Idiot’s Defense,” currently at David. B. Smith Gallery, is an homage to chess, and all of the possibilities and ...

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