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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Any thoughts that the 2026 Chess Olympiad in Samarkand would be a warm, fluffy get-together of the worldwide family of chess nations were immediately dispelled on Wednesday as the huge event kicked ...

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 ...