Women have broken into the list of top 100 players only a few times, and they account for just 2 percent of grandmasters, ...

Here's what you need to know about Magnus Carlsen - he's a 23-year-old Grandmaster of chess from Norway, currently ranked no. 1 in the world. The chess world make use of the Elo rating system to ...

Chess-Carlsen rules out world championship return, still 'better than the kids' Magnus Carlsen feels he's still better than the young generation of chess players, but the Norwegian great is ruling ...

Magnus Carlsen may be the best chess player in the world, but the Norwegian has ruled out a return to the classical World ...