If a fervent chess player seeking a challenging game partner doesn’t happen to live in a major city such as St. Louis, ...

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The journey from the Von Neumann to the Niemann affair has much to teach us about the changed landscape of the sport ...

On a cold November afternoon in 1844, players in Washington opened a chess game in the old, familiar way, with a pawn pushed ...

Chennai Grand Masters is an elite-level annual closed tournament held every year in what is widely considered the chess capital of India. D.

In the Netflix film, Magnus Carlsen does not say sorry for accusing Hans Niemann of cheating without any evidence ...

And yet, as a three-time National Chess Champion and a two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, I love to play against them. Not because they push me to play my best, but because of what they reveal ...

For more than a decade, the Sinquefield Cup has been a key stop on the Grand Chess Tour, bringing together some of the world’s top players in a competition that helps define the highest level of the ...

Javokhir Sindarov's Lichess studies went public during the Candidates. His response said everything about why he leads the tournament.

Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess, author Ben Mezrich explores every angle of the match where Niemann improbably beat Carlsen, leading Carlsen to imply that Niemann had ...