NEW DELHI: Javokhir Sindarov delivered a flawless campaign to clinch the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2026 title on Tuesday, sealing the crown with a round to spare and setting up a blockbuster World ...

Magnus Carlsen (left) and Hans Niemann at the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships in 2025, playing each other again three years after the scandal involving the pair Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty ...

For more than a decade, the Sinquefield Cup has been a key stop on the Grand Chess Tour, bringing together some of the world’s top players in a competition that helps define the highest level of the ...

American grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura was sitting at a chess board in Cyprus last week feeling absolutely stumped. The world’s No. 2 rated player, famous for his talents in speed chess, spent 67 ...

PARIS, April 6 (Reuters) - Magnus Carlsen's chess startup Take Take Take announced on Monday it was pushing into the play and learning markets ‌central to Chess.com's core business, despite commercial ...

Ten minutes past one in the afternoon—and Magnus Carlsen’s world was crashing down around him. This can’t be happening. Magnus ran a hand through his disheveled mane of auburn hair, a chaotic halo ...

The chess program Stockfish can crush Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, who is largely considered the greatest player in history. However, it cannot replace him. These super-strong platforms ...

Lea Michele will leave the highly-acclaimed Broadway revival of “Chess” on June 21. The 39-year-old Bronx native, believed to be a strong contender to win a Tony Award, has been with the show since it ...

Lea Michele will depart the Broadway revival of Chess on Sunday, June 21, finishing an engagement that began with the show’s first preview last October. Her replacement in the role of Florence Vassy ...

Medieval manuscripts, paintings and chess sets reveal that the so-called "game of kings" defied social structures and racial attitudes by celebrating the intellectual prowess of winners irrespective ...

South Texas is the chess capital of the state, due in large part to the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Its chess team is preparing to defend its national title in competitive collegiate chess.

The American chess player was accused of using a sex toy to cheat after he defeated five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen in the 2022 Sinquefield Cup Hans Niemann's sex toy cheating scandal is ...