Four-Time Defending World Champion MAGNUS CARLSEN faces Challenger IAN NEPOMNIACHTCHI to Determine 2021 World Champion NBCSN to Provide 30-Minute Highlight Programs of All Games from Nov. 28 – Dec. 16 ...

A decision to effectively ban transgender women from competitive chess tournaments until further notice by the chess world's governing body has sparked a backlash on social media. The International ...

MOSCOW, March 24. /TASS/. /TASS/. The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has decided to reschedule the World Chess Olympiad, including competition for players with disabilities, and the FIDE ...

DUBAI, United Arab EmiratesDUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Reigning world chess champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway defended his title and won the FIDE World Championship on Friday in Dubai. He beat Ian ...

The international governing body of competitive chess is effectively banning transgender women from competing and stripping trans men of previously won women’s titles. In its guidelines for ...

A recent decision by the International Chess Federation to ban transgender women from competing in women-only chess tournaments has sparked criticism from many, as well as raising questions about why ...

Dubai, UAE, Nov. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The grand opening of the 2021 World Chess Championship took place in Dubai. The match for the world chess leadership is being held with the support of The ...

The Russian women's team claimed the title at the World Team Championship while Azerbaijan claimed silver and China took home ...

For half of the 20th century, Soviet and Russian players dominated chess, winning all but one World Chess Championship, the game’s most prestigious tournament. During the Soviet era, grandmasters like ...

Magnus Carlsen, who has been ranked the No. 1 chess player in the world since 2011, announced Wednesday he will not defend his world championship title. "The conclusion is very simple that I am not ...