Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura is the latest in a wave of chess player signings before the 2025 Esports World Cup.

Two prominent voices want chess to change. Carlsen, the 34-year-old Norwegian grand master and five-time world champion who ...

FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry ...

Magnus Carlsen’s infamous ‘jeansgate’ scandal at the 2024 World Rapid and Blitz Championships in New York led to his ...

Viswanathan Anand had only hoped that his ward would play the World Chess Championship one day, winning it by setting a new ...

FIDE has dress codes for international events, where suits, collared shirts, and slacks are the norm. Players will sometimes push the bounds of that dress code in the sake of comfort, but denim jeans ...

Russian-born chess grandmaster and émigré Gennadi “Genna” Sosonko still remembers where he was 40 years ago today, when he heard that the 1984-85 World Championship match in Moscow between ...

Prize funds in chess seem to have settled at US$1 million or US$2 million for a world championship match, US$500,000 for a ...

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 ...

A row is brewing in the world of chess – at the center of it are a disgruntled world federation and a chess variant – with millions on the line.