The shocking defeat of one of the best chess players in the world sparked accusations of cheating and has thrown the sport into a tailspin over the last few weeks. Magnus Carlsen, the 31-year-old ...

India is set to host the 2025 FIDE World Cup, a prestigious chess tournament scheduled from October 30 to November 2. The event will feature 206 players competing in a single-elimination format. The ...

In 1987, Russian grandmasters Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov faced off in Seville, Spain for the World Chess Championship. David Llada, then a nine-year-old boy growing up the small northern town ...

Under the bright lights of Wynn Las Vegas’ Lafite Ballroom, eight grandmasters squared off Friday in a first-of-its-kind tournament shaking up the chess world. The Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour is ...

With chess riding a wave of popularity in recent years, the game is seizing on the opportunity to revolutionize the way it’s played and consumed. The inaugural Global Chess League (GCL), which got ...

As far as chess tournaments go, the Louisiana State Championship and Iowa Open are not what you would describe as big-time events. The highest-ranked players from either event last year didn't even ...

BOARDMAN — Twenty-four chess playing hopefuls from around the region gathered at Southern Park Mall over the weekend for a nationally sanctioned chess tournament, the first of its kind in Boardman.

WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. (WIVB) — While the world was shut down early in the pandemic, 11-year-old Bryan Lin would play chess — sometimes for up to six hours at a time. Now, the Williamsville fifth grader ...

If you scrunch your eyes up just as an offensive line sets for a play, the outlines of the players look like chess pieces being moved around the board by some invisible hand. Some run in the straight ...