For some of the 715 players from 81 countries competing at the FIDE World U7–U17 event in Roquetas de Mar, Spain, the outcome of a game may depend on their governments’ relations with Israel
The EU, the Spanish government and FIDE are undertaking efforts in support of the three chess players detained a week ago, while remaining cautiously optimistic
US security services reveal a plan by agents linked to Russian intelligence to kill the former world chess champion, who is living in New York
The players are under house arrest and face corporal punishment because the game has been banned by the Taliban government for religious reasons
Chess.com’s 250 million accounts and the growing number of countries adopting it as an educational tool are breathing new life into a sport with 15 centuries of history
The Russian former Kremlin insider, sidelined by Moscow after condemning the war in 2022, steps aside as chief of world chess’s governing body, with Viswanathan Anand taking over on an interim basis
A six‑time world champion and winner of more tournaments than anyone, he remains a towering symbol of the sport
The Argentine player based in Badalona seals his latest milestone at the Sardinia Open, extending a remarkable streak of early achievements
The winner of the Candidates Tournament, a 20-year-old Uzbek, relies on his intuition and computers, and has not studied the great champions of history
In the Netflix film, Magnus Carlsen does not say sorry for accusing Hans Niemann of cheating without any evidence
The Netflix documentary ‘Queen of Chess’ does a good job of showcasing Polgár’s talents, but fails to examine the fact that she never went to school or that there were very few women in the sport
The elite chess player, who has been a Spanish citizen since refusing to wear a headscarf at the 2022 World Rapid Chess Championship, maintains that any solution is good if it stops the massacre of civilians and brings about regime change
The International Chess Federation recognizes Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha with an official rating, meaning has defeated at least three players in the ranking
Vladimir Kramnik has denied any wrongdoing, while FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich says he warned the former world champion about his actions
The renowned US chess grandmaster and commentator, who died suddenly on Monday aged 29, was accused without evidence of cheating for over a year by the former Russian champion
The Taliban cling to the argument that the game involves gambling (prohibited by the Quran), a justification previously used by Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini — who reversed his stance in 1988
The world champion, dethroned by the American in the middle of the Cold War, died on February 27 in Moscow at the age of 88 after a life worthy of the movies
The record-holding world chess champion, who lives in New York and is included on the Putin government’s list of ‘terrorists and extremists,’ maintains that the war must follow a ‘strategy that consists of Ukraine winning and Russia losing’
Russia places the former world chess champion on its list of terrorists and extremists, more than 10 years after moving to New York when targeted by the Russian president for his political dissension
Buettner, the sponsor, predicts that the 960 (or freestyle) mode will coexist with the classic version, and he does not rule out the possibility of two parallel World Championships
Carlsen, Ding and six other players participate in an innovative Chess960 tournament held at a luxurious German resort
Unlike Sergey Karjakin, the world runner-up who was sanctioned for taking military equipment to the front, the grandmaster has not been punished by the International Chess Federation for his pro-war stance
The FIDE’s Ethics and Disciplinary Commission has sentenced the Norwegian player to pay €10,000 for withdrawing from the 2022 Sinquefield Cup without a valid reason, but acquitted him of other charges
The 30-year-old talks about his dramatic win over Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi, his love of poetry and why he describes himself as both a ‘very emotional and rational’ person
The Uzbeki-American player, who holds the world record of 48 simultaneous matches while unable to see the board, served up an astonishing exhibition at the World Championship in Astana, Kazakhstan
Ranked second in the world, the player is currently leading against Ding Liren at the World Championship with four games to go, but he is under pressure for his rejection of the invasion of Ukraine
Those around the second-best chess player in the world believe that the current champion, Magnus Carlsen, advised his rival, Ding Liren, before the World Championship