R Vaishali has created history by becoming the first Indian woman to win the FIDE Women’s Candidates and qualify for the ...

A strange rule ahead of the Speed Chess Championship Finals has put GothamChess (Levy Rozman) in the spotlight. The popular chess streamers' book, How to Win at Chess, is not allowed inside the event ...

Hikaru Nakamura did not hold back as he ripped into his critics, calling them ‘idiots’ after he defeated Fabiano Caruana on ...

Javokhir Sindarov will face defending champion Gukesh Dommaraju in the men’s World Chess Championship later this year after ...

Children from New York schools are consistently winning national chess championships, and programs dedicated to teaching ...

The FIDE Candidates 2026 sees a dominant Javokhir Sindarov in the Open section, while the Women's category is a 'comedy or tragedy of errors'. Indian players Vaishali Rameshbabu and Divya Deshmukh ...

Winning at chess mattered during the Cold War. Ideological and national pride was at stake, and the competition was keen at any engagement. It wasn’t just headline matches like the US’s Bobby ...