The 17th world champion of chess, Ding Liren has relinquished the throne after he lost to 18-year-old Gukesh at the summit ...

Intelligence is attractive, and so are these 11 chess grandmasters and players, whose moves have us locked in checkmate.

A row is brewing in the world of chess – at the center of it are a disgruntled world federation and a chess variant – with ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world’s top chess player, is bored of chess. Carlsen has spent much of the past year appearing to dismiss the game he has mastered: It was no longer exciting to play, he told ...

3 Hikaru Nakamura has urged the world's top chess players, such as D Gukesh, to boycott FIDE, which could put his world championship title under doubt The FIDE is currently at war with Magnus ...

Days after talks between FIDE and Freestyle Chess Tour collapsed over the use of the title world championship in the tour’s title, the world governing body FIDE stated that the organisers of Freestyle ...

The reigning world champion lost the must-win Game 2 of the last eight on Monday to continue his winless run in Weissenhaus ...

Magnus Carlsen, a 34-year-old Norwegian, is among the greatest chess players of all time.

FIDE and Carlsen have been at loggerheads ever since the global chess body rejected Freestyle Chess Players Club’s (FCPC) attempt to brand their upcoming Grand Slam Tour as a “World Championship”.

Crowned as a Grandmaster in 2003 and an International Master in 2001, he has participated and placed in multiple FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship events. Chess.com recognized Nakamura ...

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