Andy Woodward sits behind a chess board with his 2026 U.S. Junior Championship in St. Louis. He won his second championship ...

From Chaturanga to world champions, India’s enduring love affair with the 64 squares is inspiring a new generation. July 20 ...

McKinney chess grandmaster Andy Woodward, 16, returns to St. Louis to defend his U.S. Junior Championship title after an ...

Chess. It’s been around hundreds of years, and you either love it or hate it (or, alternatively, just don’t know how to play it). If you’re not a fan of the checkerboard game then we can safely agree ...

A Russian grandmaster has been banned from world chess championships for at least a year over his cheating allegations against a series of leading players, including the late Daniel Naroditsky.

On June 1, a few hours before R Praggnanandhaa went into his game against Alireza Firouzja he was on a call with his mother. A constant presence by his side at tournaments abroad usually, Nagalakshmi ...

In September of 2022, Magnus Carlsen had won 53 consecutive classical chess matches.Then, he sat down across from Hans Niemann. Carlsen, then 32 and a five-time World Championship, was widely ...

The new generation of chess bots eliminates jarring, inhuman moves, extends the rating ladder from true beginner to beyond 3000, and makes hyper-bullet time controls possible — redefining the chess vs ...

If a fervent chess player seeking a challenging game partner doesn’t happen to live in a major city such as St. Louis, Missouri, home of the World Chess Hall of Fame, the next best thing might be ...

This is how the story of a great chess grandmaster usually begins. A parent or teacher discovers an exceptional mind: a memory of shocking precision; a special intuition for geometry; a gift for logic ...

Magnus Carlsen in a scene from 'Untold: Chess Mates.' Ciutadella (Menorca), April 2023. Four months before the out-of-court settlement, which was already being negotiated (it’s not known how much ...

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