A new book by Jordan Himelfarb follows the game’s rising young players, including the reigning world champion Gukesh ...

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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 ...

Returning for its sixth year, Prismatic Ground is one of the most eclectic annual showcases of experimental documentary and ...

“Untold,” a sports documentary series, recounts a notorious match between two grandmasters and the cheating accusations that rocked the chess world and beyond. By Dylan Loeb McClain Dylan Loeb McClain ...

The internet’s most famous misogynists have made millions from sexist propaganda – what do their lovers, mothers and sisters see in them?

Check out the chess board above—looks wrong, right? If you’ve ever played chess, you know something's amiss, here. For one thing, someone chose to exchange a pawn for another bishop instead of a queen ...

Thirty years ago from February 10-17, 1996, in Philadelphia, USA, world chess champion Garry Kasparov defeated the supercomputer Deep Blue 4-2 in a six-game match. The following year, in May 1997, the ...

US chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky suffered cardiac issues after taking kratom and meth, according to a detailed medical examiner’s report that ruled the 29-year-old’s death an accident. Friends ...