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.

In a bid to cater to casual fans, chess tournaments are introducing innovations in rules and gimmicks, and the players are ...

As far as chess tournaments go, the Louisiana State Championship and Iowa Open are not what you would describe as big-time events. The highest-ranked players from either event last year didn't even ...

Gukesh Dommaraju and Divya Deshmukh, Indian chess prodigies, faced off at the FIDE Grand Swiss in Uzbekistan. Their first classical format encounter e ...

At just seven years old, Varun Turaga from Pleasanton is preparing to compete in the world chess championship.

At Grand Swiss, Gukesh has been held to a draw by 14-year-old Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus, handed a defeat by 16-year-old American GM ...