Aug. 29 (UPI) --A defamation legal battle regarding a teenage chess prodigy accused of using vibrating sex toys to cheat during a tournament in Missouri last year reached its conclusion Monday. Hans ...

Chess is booming. A heady cocktail of Queen’s Gambit mania, pandemic boredom, and Twitch streaming has given the ancient board game more visibility than it’s had in a long, long time. It’s been half a ...

The world chess championship may be decided by a freeze and a fake-out. The unexpectedly compelling 14-game title match in Astana, Kazakhstan, between Russian GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and Chinese GM Ding ...

The international governing body of competitive chess is effectively banning transgender women from competing and stripping trans men of previously won women’s titles. Subscribe to read this story ...

PARIS, May 18 - Alireza Firouzja traded the tournament hall for a hotel room on Monday, stretched out across a bed with his injured ankle raised on a pillow while fellow chess grandmaster Javokhir ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world’s top chess player, is bored of chess. Carlsen has spent much of the past year appearing to dismiss the game he has mastered: It was no longer exciting to play, he told a ...

PARIS, May 18 (Reuters) - Alireza Firouzja traded the tournament hall for a hotel room on Monday, stretched ‌out across a bed with his injured ankle raised ‌on a pillow while fellow chess grandmaster ...