Challenger GM Tan Zhongyi held four-time defending champion GM Ju Wenjun to a draw in an all-Chinese battle in Game 1 of the ...

Challenger GM Tan Zhongyi beat four-time defending champion GM Ju Wenjun in Game 2 to take 1.5-0.5 lead in the FIDE Women’s ...

Joe Marable, owner of Esso Crawl Hill, recently donated eight chess sets and instructional books to Francis Patton School’s ...

Francis Patton Primary School’s chess club received a significant boost recently, thanks to the generosity of local ...

He has recently promoted Freestyle, a tournament where the pieces on the back rank start ... During last year’s World Rapid Chess Championship, Carlsen fell out with FIDE after being punished ...

Gujarat's Pragnika Vaka secured the world champion title in the under-7 ... Turkey and other strong chess-playing countries were competing. She knew that if she won the eighth round, she would ...

Grandmaster and the tenth world chess champion (1969-1972 ) Boris Spassky of Russia died two Thursdays ago. He was 88. Spassky lost his world championship title in 1972 to America’s Bobby ...

PARIS, March 12 (Reuters) - Chess is getting ready to make its foray into Esports with teams recruiting top players ahead of this summer's Esports World Cup, hoping to attract new audiences as the ...

India's leading chess coach named the next ‘Viswanathan Anand’ in a massive claim, and it wasn't reigning World Chess Champion and FIDE World No. 3 D Gukesh. Aravindh Chithambaram has become ...

MANILA, Philippines — “The Philippines is no one’s chess piece. We are an independent country.” Undersecretary Claire Castro of the Presidential Communication Office made that remark in a ...