Freestyle Chess, also known as Chess960 or FIDE Fischer Random Chess, is a chess variant where the pieces start in a ...

The World Championship Match 2026 between reigning world champion Gukesh D and challenger Javokhir Sindarov will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, from Nov. 25 to Dec. 15, FIDE announced. The contest ...

The 24-player tournament will also host other big names in world chess like 5-time world champion Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana and Hans Niemann among others.

Erling Haaland is among the soccer players who have invested in one of their favorite pastimes, chess. The game is booming online.

Total Chess has unveiled a new universal rating system, with Magnus Carlsen at number-one. But nearly a decade after the Grand Chess Tour tried something remarkably similar, can this attempt succeed?

HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — What started as a hobby for Gleb Dudin has turned into a career that has earned him the ...

Lê Quang Liêm is one of 24 Grandmasters to compete in the Total Chess World Championship from November 10-20 in Budapest, Hungary.

Celebrating a historic championship at the 46th Chess Olympiad hosted in Samarkand, the Uzbekistan national team has also completely conquered the ...

With an outstanding turnout of 721 players representing 82 countries, the 2026 FIDE World Championships U7–U17 got underway ...

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