The rapid growth of chess is leading to the proliferation of new formats, which is in turn creating a crowded year-long calendar.

World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen played his first match at the World Blitz Championship after initially quitting the chess tournament due to a dress code dispute with organizers. On Friday, Carlsen walked ...

Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen dropped out of the World Rapid and Blitz Championships on Dec. 27 after refusing to ditch his denim as "a matter of principle" Misha Friedman/Getty World ...

Aarini Lahoty, a five-year-old chess prodigy from Delhi, has achieved a remarkable feat by earning FIDE ratings in classical, ...

Chess is popular, with over 600 million playing it regularly in 200 countries. That has given Magnus Carlsen a lot of ...

A New Force in Chess In a realm traditionally ruled by seasoned players and global icons, 19-year-old Divya Deshmukh is making waves as a dynamic and inspiring figure. She is not only challenging ...

World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen played his first match at the World Blitz Championship after initially quitting the chess tournament due to a dress code dispute with organizers.On Friday, Carlsen walked ...

World champion Dommaraju Gukesh scored one win and four draws on the opening day to slip to joint-sixth in the St. Louis Rapid and Blitz chess tournament, a part of the Grand chess tour, in St. Louis ...

An eight-year-old British schoolgirl “phenomenon” won the women’s first prize in the Blitz category at this year’s European Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship in Zagreb, Croatia. The “super talented” ...

The best thing about manga is that there is a genre about just about every topic you can think of, so of course, there's a manga about chess called Blitz. There may be others, but this is the first to ...