For Assignment Tim Whewell reports from Moscow and New York on the deeply politicised game of chess and asks if it’s finally checkmate for the king of chess. Dina Newman producing. Photo: Kirsan ...

Fide Master Tahsin Tajwar Zia of Bangladesh Ansar became unbeaten champion in the Over-2000 rating group of the Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman Memorial International Rating Chess Tournament held in the ...

A Colchester club named after a popular chess move is determined to put the city on the international chess map.

In the high-stakes chess match of college football recruiting, the offseason is a battleground where futures are shaped and ...

Freestyle chess is now popular because of the abundance of knowledge about the standard starting position. It randomizes the opening and side-steps memorization by shuffling the pieces on the back ...

Magnus Carlsen managed to edge past Arjun Erigaisi and enter the Grand Final of the ongoing 2025 Chessable Masters.

On​ the morning of 18 April 2023, the chess grandmaster Ding Liren was discussing tactics with his coach. He was ...

Taylor Swift wants to distance herself from the controversy involving Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. Since Blake referred ...

German GM Martin Keymer was Freestyling in style, successively defeating the world’s two highest-rated players to capture the ...

What is white’s best move? The lesson this week is that chess is often about finding the right angles. Reach Eric Morrow at ...

Vincent Keymer achieved a career-best result last week when the 20-year-old German defeated the world No 1 Magnus Carlsen in ...