Danny Rensch grew up in the Church of Immortal Consciousness, running around barefoot and living off food stamps. But he left ...

World No. 2 Hikaru Nakamura needed to hit a minimum number of games for a shot at the world championship. He sparked a firestorm by beating up on lower-ranked players to get there.

An Iranian chess player has become the latest sportswoman from the Islamic Republic to participate in an international competition without the country’s mandatory headscarf. Iranian news outlets ...

Can a chess expert win a full match while playing completely blindfolded against a 1200-rated player? Watch this intense ...

After 18 years of knocking pawns and gambling queens, Evanston’s community chess club is nowhere near its endgame. The ...

The world of competitive chess had a controversial 2022, and another scandal rose last week at a female tournament in Kenya. Stanley Omondi participated in the Kenya Open Chess Championship dressed as ...

On Sunday morning, my unemployed friend John texted me with an intriguing opinion: “‘Clash of Royale’ is harder than chess,” he declared.

In a bizarre turn of events at the Kenya Open Chess Championship in Nairobi, a sneaky man dressed as a woman managed to cheat his way through to the female section of the tournament. The cunning ...

A Russian chess player is under investigation for allegedly attempting to poison another player ahead of a match last week. Security video shows the chess player Amina Abakarova smearing what is ...

World number two Hikaru Nakamura has beaten the current world champion Gukesh Dommaraju and thrown his king to the cheering ...

Hikaru Nakamura defeated world champion D Gukesh at the Checkmate: USA vs India and grabbed the Indian GM's king, tossing it ...

The rivalry between two chess players in Russia took a bizarre turn when one of them was accused of poisoning a game board with liquid mercury, making her opponent sick. The suspect, chess player ...