Ed Bourgeois with the Minnesota State Chess Association, explains chess tournament rules to some of the 32 inmates gathered ...

At a time before his country became a chess powerhouse, he defeated four world champions, including Bobby Fischer and another ...

Hikaru Nakamura commits a late blunder to allow Magnus Carlsen to win Game 1 of their blockbuster final after putting up a ...

Arjun Erigaisi defeated Fabiano Caruana and Magnus Carlsen in the opening two rounds of Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour in ...

Magnus Carlsen holds Hikaru Nakamura to a draw in Game 2 of their blockbuster final to defeat the American GM 1.5-0.5 and win ...

The girls-only National Schools Chess Championships will be hosted by St Catherine's School in Bramley on Saturday and Sunday ...

The high-profile matchup would add a new layer to their already intense rivalry, but in a format neither is universally ...

Magnus Carlsen hated homework and blossomed when he no longer had to go to school. Today, he plays chess according to a new set of rules and is engaged in an ongoing battle with the World Chess ...

The 34-year-old Chinese GM became only the fourth player in history to win the Women’s World Chess Championship five times ...

On the international chess circuit, top-ranked female players are also rare; of the 100 best players in the world ... decision as to what sequence of opening moves she thought would give her ...

What many fail to grasp is that Trump’s extreme tariff announcements were not a policy end, they were a negotiating tactic.

Magnus Carlsen, the world No 1, added another triumph to his illustrious career on Monday when he won the Paris leg of the $3.75mn Freestyle Grand Slam by defeating his old rival and world No 2, the ...