My chess coach, Grandmaster Jon Ludvig Hammer, might have played one of the best games I've seen recently. He checkmated the ...

The public got to know about the cheating scandal in September when the CXA issued its life-time bans on Wang Yuefei and Wang ...

Breaking his silence on the match-fixing controversy for the first-time, FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich defended Magnus ...

Carlsen is a friend of Jan Henric Buettner, a Hamburg-born entrepreneur whose Weissenhaus Chess Academy sponsors the St.Pauli ...

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESSWIRE / January 9, 2025 / Freedom Holding Corp. is proud to have sponsored the 2024 FIDE World Blitz Championship.

The World Blitz Championship Tournament concluded last week in New York shortly before the ball fell in Times Square. After a ...

Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen married his long-term girlfriend Ella Victoria Malone in a beautiful ceremony with Netflix crew ...

Carlsen's long-time trainer and Vishwanathan Anand's former coach Peter Heine Nielsen has accused FIDE of being controlled by ...

During the World Rapid Chess Championship a few days earlier Carlsen had withdrawn from the Rapid and upcoming Blitz Tournaments. It was ostensibly about the tournament rules not allowing jeans ...

The fuss around the grand master’s wearing of denim pants to a tournament is a reflection of tensions within the game.

NPR's Eric Deggans talks with Michele Steele of ESPN about the last week of the NFL regular season, the college football playoff semifinals, and a clothing controversy in chess.

For once, everyone in the chess world appeared to agree with the controversial American chess grandmaster Hans Niemann. “The ...