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

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

Top-ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen is turning his controversial denim into some greens — for charity. The Norwegian chess ...

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 ...

Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen auctioned off the jeans that led to his disqualification from a round in the World ...

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 ...

with a long list of accolades that include five World Chess championships, five World Rapid Chess championships, and eight World Blitz Chess championships. As of the time of writing, he is the ...

Excerpts: Q. Let's start with the Norway Chess lineup, how are you seeing it this time? I was surprised when I got to know the list because it has the top five players in the world and me.

Jessie Diggins won the women’s race and Gus Schumacher placed second in the men’s race for the best combined day in U.S.

The U.S. women’s medal streak at the world championships is over. Still, this was still the best performance by the U.S. women at worlds in four decades, a promising sign a year out from the ...