A seething Magnus Carlsen slammed his fist into a table after suffering his first defeat by world champion Gukesh Dommaraju ...

If you scrunch your eyes up just as an offensive line sets for a play, the outlines of the players look like chess pieces being moved around the board by some invisible hand. Some run in the ...

Del Norte High’s chess team members have increasingly declared checkmate against their opponents, with the team capturing a third-place regional tournament award just four years after it was formed.

Calling the chess.com PogChamps6 a proper chess tournament is a liberal use of the term. Much like the Baller League — a six-a-side football competition featuring an eclectic mix of YouTubers ...

When you need a couple of on-camera ambassadors for the game of chess, you won’t do better than the Botez sisters. Alexandra, 29, and Andrea, 23, have been playing since they were barely out of ...

Indian chess gears up for a historic participation at the 87th Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, from January 17 to February 2, 2025.

Security video shows Russian chess player Amina Abakarova smearing what is alleged to be mercury on a chess board before a match. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ Funniest cap messages ...

The popular animation is celebrating chess - a two-player board game of strategy. Played on 64 black and white squares, the game is a long-standing one in British culture and was thought to have ...

That means there are 960 possible outcomes, although the tournament will disallow two—the standard start and the standard start with the positions of the king and queen swapped—giving 958 overall.

Wintersun Lemieux resets the chess board after winning his match, part of a chess tournament at the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater in Bayport on Thursday, April 17, 2025.

Norway Chess 2025 marks Carlsen's first appearance in a standard tournament since the Chess Olympiad last September as the 34-year-old has been turning his focus onto Freestyle Chess, having ...

Indian chess gears up for a historic participation at the 87th Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, from January 17 to February 2, 2025. Featuring five Indian Grandmasters for ...