The FIDE Women’s World Cup title win in an all-Indian final ensures her a spot at Candidates 2026, whose winner will get to challenge the reigning chess world champion ...

Marottichal, a village in Kerala, has transformed from a hub of bootleg liquor and gambling to an Asian record holder for simultaneous chess players. This change was sparked by C. Unnikrishnan, known ...

World Chess Day, celebrated annually on July 20th, commemorates the founding of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) and ...

Here’s what you need to know about Freestyle Chess, a unique format of the board game that has been gaining popularity with ...

A series dramatizes the 1997 chess match between a world champion and an IBM computer, a precursor of modern anxieties about ...

Amid a global chess boom, a new generation of talent is filling up South Australian clubs and classrooms – some have the ...

Carlsen squared off against 143,000 players from around the world — but the chess grandmaster was unable to clinch a victory over Team World.

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, has died in Moscow.

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow. He was ...

Chess champion’s competitor in historic match passes away Soviet grandmaster Anatoly Karpov was among the first to react, telling TASS state news agency: “He was always one of my main idols.” Spassky ...

Boris Spassky is best remembered for his duel with American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries.