A new book by Jordan Himelfarb follows the game’s rising young players, including the reigning world champion Gukesh ...

T his is how the story of a great chess grandmaster usually begins. A parent or teacher discovers an exceptional mind: a ...

Wolfgang Koeppen’s “trilogy of failure,” written from 1951 to 1954, is a sprawling, polyphonic portrait of a physically and ...

The erstwhile chess world champion broke earnings records for the game Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Magnus Carlsen is widely regarded as one of, if not the, greatest chess players of all time. Carlsen ...

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 ...

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 ...

Magnus Carlsen is widely regarded as one of, if not the, greatest chess players of all time. Carlsen was a child prodigy, though he didn't love chess at first. The Norway-born grandmaster told the ...

“Untold,” a sports documentary series, recounts a notorious match between two grandmasters and the cheating accusations that rocked the chess world and beyond. By Dylan Loeb McClain Dylan Loeb McClain ...

A three-time National Chess Champion breaks down what playing chess against LLMs can teach us.

Magnus Carlsen married his wife in 2025 and they welcomed a child later that year Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Magnus Carlsen's best move may have been marrying his wife, Ella Victoria Carlsen. The ...

Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess, author Ben Mezrich explores every angle of the match where Niemann improbably beat Carlsen, leading Carlsen to imply that Niemann had ...