Teenage prodigies Jadon Simiyu and Jully Mutisya stamped their authority at the 2025 National Chess Championship in Nairobi.The two claimed the Open and Ladies’ titles respectively, leading a dominant ...

Magnus Carlsen, widely regarded as the greatest chess player of all time, won the World Blitz Championship in December 2025 ...

The World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship Qatar 2025 officially opened today at Qatar University’s Sports and Events Complex, launching five days of world-class competition that will run until ...

It’s ‍ ‌‍ ‍‌ ‍ ‌‍ ‍‌ the nature of being a long-established game and having this tradition associated with it literally hanging on its shoulders, chess, over the last couple of years, has become ...

On 26 November 1844, two chess teams faced off while separated by 60 kilometers, as the Washington Chess Club played a team in Baltimore using the newly built electrical telegraph. Three consulting ...

The Global Chess League (GCL) aims to make chess more engaging beyond its traditional, individual-focused format.

Diving chess is played at the bottom of a swimming pool, using a chessboard with magnetic chess pieces. The players dive ...

Doha is officially in chess mode. The world’s top players have arrived in the Qatari capital for the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships 2025, running from now until December 30 at Qatar ...

Entrepreneurs often have to take a leap of faith to get their businesses off the ground—whether it be cashing out their 401(k)s for funding, or dropping out of Ivy League colleges to go all-in.

Russian chess great Vladimir Kramnik has sued world chess governing body FIDE for defamation in a Swiss civil court after he ...