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

If a fervent chess player seeking a challenging game partner doesn’t happen to live in a major city such as St. Louis, ...

In 2024, Vaishali and Praggnanandhaa became the first brother-sister duo to play in the Candidates Tournament.

The journey from the Von Neumann to the Niemann affair has much to teach us about the changed landscape of the sport ...

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

A new chess club in Merrill is helping players learn the ropes, and for some, the game is more than it appears.

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

Chess players now get scanned to check for electrical devices. But no one is entirely sure these methods are watertight ...

In its opening moments, Untold: Chess Mates contextualizes a cheating scandal that rocked the top tiers of competitive chess in 2022—which spiraled out of control with allegations of a player using ...

Joint-leader R Vaishali (7 points) needs to beat last edition’s winner Tan Zhongyi in the 13th and penultimate round on Tuesday, with black pieces, to.

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 ...

The Uzbek 20-year-old won first prize unbeaten but his girlfriend, Bibisara Assaubayeva, finished second to the lowest seed in the Women’s Candidates ...