Oregon’s first woman grandmaster in chess is 16-year-old Zoey Tang, a junior at Westview High School in Beaverton. “Woman grandmaster” is the highest chess title restricted to women that is awarded by ...

World chess champion Magnus Carlsen dropped out of the World Rapid and Blitz Championships on Dec. 27 because he refused to ...

Gukesh D was also awarded the Move of the Year at the Chess dot com awards for his extraordinary rook sacrifice, 36...Rxf5, ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world’s No1 chess player, has triggered a major backlash after cutting short a final to share a world ...

Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi have caused a stir in the chess community after agreeing to share the World Blitz ...

World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen played his first match at the World Blitz Championship after initially quitting the chess ...

Carlsen and Nepo agreed to a draw after three straight draws in tiebreakers; while Ju beat compatriot Lei Tingjie.

World chess number one Magnus Carlsen announced his return to play in this year’s final World Blitz Championship after the ...

FIDE, chess’s main governing body, stipulates a certain level of decorum; an arbiter informed Carlsen that, in order to be eligible to play in the tournament, he’d have to return to his hotel ...

The latest FIDE rankings for 2025 see Arjun Erigaisi hold the fourth spot, with D Gukesh securing fifth as the new Classical ...

First Sports With Rupha Ramani The FIDE V Carlsen battle has taken an ugly route. Carlsen's trainer and Viswanathan Anand's former coach Peter Heine Nielsen, has attacked FIDE and Russia. The Danish ...

After disqualification in the Rapid event, world number one Magnus Carlsen had opted out of the Blitz championship but he ...