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.

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 ...

The application for the game’s official top-level domain has been submitted to ICANN — the first chance in over a decade to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

FIDE has published the electoral roll for this month's presidential election. It reveals 13 federations with a complaint or ...

Forget the three-way battle to become FIDE President. Another extraordinary election is taking place in Samarkand this month, ...

Javokhir Sindarov says facing Gukesh will be the hardest tournament of his life—but the challenger is taking a very different ...