World Champion GM Gukesh D has fallen below 2700 on the live rating list for the first time in four years after being held to ...

The tragic death of GM Daniel Naroditsky is still haunting chess. Many questions continue to be asked—and they are not going away. This week the picture did become a little clearer, however, as the ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

England is an historic chess nation that has been crying out for a star. But in 11-year-old WIM Bodhana Sivanandan, it has surely found one. The 112th British Chess Championships began this week at ...

It's been an incredible week of chess—make no mistake. And we have a cheating controversy to get our teeth into. First and foremost, the FIDE Candidates, the biggest most consequential tournament of ...