Gukesh Dommaraju ascended to World No. 3 after drawing against reigning champion Wei Yi at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament ...

Across three days, there have been three one-on-one phone calls between freestyle chess tour promoter Jan Henric Buettner and FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich ...

1. Kansas City’s team nickname came as an homage to former KC Mayor H. Roe Bartle. Nicknamed “Chief,” Bartle was instrumental in the franchise relocating from Dallas to Kansas City in 1963. Bartle got ...

Wembanyama becomes only the fourth Spurs player to make the All-Star Game in his first or second season. The others: Alvin ...

In an open letter to FIDE CEO Emil Sutovsky, German entrepreneur Jan Henric Buettner has also questioned the chess governing ...

C HESS IS the sort of deep and rewarding game that you can spend an enjoyable lifetime failing to master. But even ardent fans might concede that, as a spectacle, watching two players think for long ...

Legendary Indian chess player Viswanathan Anand has withdrawn from the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam tour amid the ongoing dispute between Magnus Carlsen and FIDE. Anand’s decision comes as tensions rise ...

David MacEnulty tells the story of how he came to be the coach of a team of elementary school chess players — all from ...

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

Magnus Carlsen criticised FIDE after co-founding Freestyle Chess Players Club with Jan Henric Beuttner, which led to a ...

The UEFA Champions League group stage, in the first year of a new format, concludes Wednesday. Here's what to know, including ...

The world champion leads compatriot Praggnanandhaa and Uzbekistan's Nodirbek Abdusattorov on tie break criteria. Can he hold ...