World Chess Day celebrates chess’s global benefits in education, peace, and inclusion, while the game remains banned in ...

“Chess is everything: art, science and sport,” Anatoly Karpov, the chess world champion from 1975 to 1985, once said. The book makes the case for this claim through hundreds of artful and ...

Chess hasn’t seen popularity like this since the 1972 World Chess Championship. By Greg Keener While many Americans were confined to their homes during the pandemic, they turned to chess to ...

Duchamp’s love of chess was as multifaceted as his art. First and foremost, the quiet game offered moments of reprieve from the noisy, chaotic streets of Upper Manhattan where he lived.

Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen was forced into a draw Monday by more than 143,000 people worldwide playing against him in a single, record-setting game. Billed as “Magnus Carlsen vs ...

When David Peng was 6, his parents gave him a chess set. Little did anyone know that one day it would lead to a national championship. Peng became intrigued by the game’s complexities and sta… ...

Georgian chess legend Nona Gaprindashvili is suing Netflix for defamation. At issue is a line in the show's final episode that falsely says she hadn't played against male opponents.

Carlsen, a 27-year-old Norwegian, has held the title since 2013. He defeated Fabiano Caruana, who would have been the first U.S. citizen to win the world title since Bobby Fischer.

The prize for the World Chess Championship—‎€1 million euros ($1.06 million), split 60-40—was staked by the event’s promoter and sponsors, a departure from tournaments of yore whose pots ...

FIDE said Carlsen, a five-time World Chess Champion and seven-time World Blitz Chess Champion, breached long-standing regulations for the event. Carlsen, 34, was notified of the breach, issued a ...