After winning the 2018 Candidates Tournament, Caruana became the first American challenger for the World Chess Championship ...

Hans Niemann has challenged Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura for an over-the-board blitz chess match. Carlsen and Niemann ...

World chess champion Magnus Carlsen quit the World Rapid Chess Championship on Friday after he refused to change out of a ...

World chess champion Magnus Carlsen dropped out of the World Rapid and Blitz Championships on Dec. 27 because he refused to ...

Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi have caused a stir in the chess community after agreeing to share the World Blitz ...

India's Koneru Humpy won her second World Rapid Chess Championship title, beating Indonesia's Irene Sukandar. Humpy ...

Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen the International Chess Federation (FIDE) World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships on Friday after being confronted over a dress code violation.

San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama tangled with some of New York's greatest chess players. One is telling the story of ...

He’s won the World Chess Championship five times—every time he’s competed in it, in fact. But, in 2022, he announced that he would not defend his title. Classical chess—traditionally the ...

The star of the San Antonio Spurs is once again playing chess. Victor Wembanyama took time to play Benny the Bull before a Spurs-Bulls game.

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 ...