Ten esports teams have already entered the chess arena, with Indian Grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi signing with esports side Gen ...

Chess players continue to sign with esports organisations. Ahead of the Esports World Cup, find out which orgs have expanded ...

This isn't just another chess tournament though, with a public spat between Carlsen and the promoters of the FCGT with FIDE in the build-up to the tournament.

The much-anticipated second leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025 has been officially confirmed for April in Paris.

Change the rules, and add a touch of reality TV. Ten of the world’s top players gathered in a German villa on the Baltic coast this week to play in the first tournament of a new chess circuit, the ...

Boris Spassky is best remembered for his duel with American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for ...

He defended his World Chess champion title against American Bobby Fischer in the “Match of the Century” in 1972 — which ...

This chess opening dates back to at least 1490. Black’s response to the Queen's Gambit opening is either to accept or decline the board’s center. For advanced players, White’s thoughtful ...

There is this unending discussion in chess about whether the players of yesteryear could have matched the champions of today. One commentator said if the great Cuban world champion Jose Raul ...

(CNN) — If you scrunch your eyes up just as an offensive line sets for a play, the outlines of the players look like chess pieces being moved around the board by some invisible hand. Some run in ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world’s top chess player, is bored of chess. Carlsen has spent much of the past year appearing to dismiss the game he has mastered: It was no longer exciting to play, he told ...

Change the rules, and add a touch of reality TV. Ten of the world’s top players gathered in a German villa on the Baltic coast this week to play in the first tournament of a new chess circuit, the ...