The Uzbek 20-year-old won first prize unbeaten but his girlfriend, Bibisara Assaubayeva, finished second to the lowest seed in the Women’s Candidates ...

On a cold November afternoon in 1844, players in Washington opened a chess game in the old, familiar way, with a pawn pushed ...

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In the Netflix film, Magnus Carlsen does not say sorry for accusing Hans Niemann of cheating without any evidence ...

With winter semester coming to an end, students across the Brigham Young University campus took time to reflect on what this ...

IT’S long been seen as the bastion of geeks and brainiacs but the world of chess has had its fair share of shocking scandals.

In July 1993, a disguised player entered the World Open chess tournament in Philadelphia using the name of a mathematician ...

A Canadian journalist’s book analyses an ecosystem proliferated by genius, prodigies, oddballs and eccentrics, all of this ...

The new feature-length doc tells the story of Magnus Carlsen, a Norwegian Grandmaster and the No. 1 chess player in the world ...

Last week, the streaming giant released new feature-length documentary, Untold: Chess Mates, and it has since climbed up the ...