The Uzbek 20-year-old won first prize unbeaten but his girlfriend, Bibisara Assaubayeva, finished second to the lowest seed in the Women’s Candidates ...

IT’S long been seen as the bastion of geeks and brainiacs but the world of chess has had its fair share of shocking scandals.

The 24-year-old notched up her fourth win in six games to lead by a full point in the Women’s Candidates in Cyprus with just ...

Some locker rooms are filled with chess players -- from multitime NBA champions like Draymond Green and Klay Thompson to younger players like the Timberwolves' Jaylen Clark and Sacramento Kings' ...

SAINT LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The 2025 American Cup further solidified 15-year-old International Master (IM) Alice Lee as a rising force in women’s chess, as she clinched her second American Cup ...

April 5, 2026 saw the conclusion of the first round at the World Chess Championship Candidates Tournament, being held at the ...

Two days after he had halted the four-game winning streak of runaway leader Javokhir Sindarov, Dutch Grandmaster Anish Giri ...

Chess grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura took over 67 minutes deliberating over a single move in, only to lose the match anyway.

Untold,” a sports documentary series, recounts a notorious match between two grandmasters and the cheating accusations that ...

Chess Mates,' from the Netflix Untold series, digs a little deeper into the chess cheating scandal that created headlines around the world ...

Vaishali Rameshbabu secured a crucial victory at the Candidates chess tournament, capitalising on a significant error by ...

Grandmaster R Vaishali made something out of nothing, and in style, bagging full points to move to four out of seven after ...