Magnus Carlsen is the 2025 FIDE World Rapid Champion. The Norwegian chess star showed incredible composure and ...

India on Thursday hailed chess prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju after the 18-year-old became the youngest world champion with a thrilling final win over China's Ding Liren. Gukesh surpassed a record held by ...

The 2024 World Chess Championship is currently evenly tied at 2-2 betweeen Indian star Gukesh Dommaraju and defending champion Ding Liren after four games. The first match was won by Diren before a ...

In competitive chess, where the clash of queens and bishops usually eclipses cultural warfare, a teenage girl has found herself at the center of Germany’s latest front in the debate over transgender ...

Koneru Humpy was tied for the top spot with China's Zhu Jiner and Russian Grandmaster Aleksandra Goryachkina at 8.5 points ...

A 19-year-old winning a World Cup in an individual sport like chess is no mean feat, but there was an air of inevitability to ...

Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen won’t defend his title at the International Chess Federation (FIDE) World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships because of a pair of jeans. Carlsen, the current World No ...

Alpine SG Pipers stormed their way into title contention of Global Chess League 2025 by registering their second consecutive ...

Global Chess League sees D Gukesh and Arjun Erigaisi power Alaskan Knights to their first win, while Alireza Firouzja helps ...

Chess hasn’t seen popularity like this since the 1972 World Chess Championship. By Greg Keener Between studying moves with tutors in India and New York, Oliver Boydell has homework (with video game ...