Former FIDE deputy president and seven-time Greek champion Georgios Makropoulos has died just days before he was due to stand for election again in Samarkand.

Here is how you elect the president of FIDE. You gather the delegates of nearly 200 national federations in one city, you give them each a ballot, and you count. Simple. The city this year is ...

India has handed Javokhir Sindarov the Chess Olympiad torch to take home to Uzbekistan. Given what the World Championship challenger is hoping to take from India over the next three months, perhaps ...

With FIDE's Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, drawing close, here's how chess is transforming the lives of refugee ...

Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi renew one of the defining rivalries of recent chess history on Sunday when they meet at ...

Turlov believes artificial intelligence could become part of the solution. With AI models now capable of tackling ...

The teams are in. Here are the players heading to Samarkand for the 2026 Chess Olympiad, with the USA top seeds in the Open ...

The warning comes as World Champion Gukesh D prepares for the Chess Olympiad in Samarkand before defending his world title ...

The World Championship challenger says Gukesh's recent struggles mean little ahead of their big showdown—and he is preparing ...

Latest: The 2026 Chess Olympiad is under way in Samarkand—and politics has already intruded. Pakistan boycotted its scheduled opening-round match against Israel, handing Israel a 4-0 walkover without ...

FIDE presidential elections have rarely been genteel affairs. From the ousting of Friðrik Ólafsson back in '82, to the rise of the last permanent president Arkady Dvorkovich, they are notoriously ...

What is King and Queen Checkmate? A King Queen Checkmate occurs when a King and Queen work together to entrap the enemy King to the point of no legal movement, placing the King in check without escape ...