Javokhir Sindarov, meanwhile, misses out on a fifth consecutive victory at the 2026 Fide Candidates as Dutch GM Anish Giri ...

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One day in May, chess grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura was watching the last two moves of Felix “xQc” Lengyel’s online chess game. Ever-patient, Nakamura had been mentoring Lengyel, a top Twitch streamer ...

Chess has a reputation for cold logic, but Vladimir Kramnik loves the game for its beauty. “It’s a kind of creation,” he says. His passion for the artistry of minds clashing over the board, trading ...

The chess Candidates tournament opens on Sunday with a throwback feel — eight players, long-time controls ​and the game in ...

When Magnus Carlsen started playing chess at the age of eight, he grew up in “a hybrid generation,” mainly playing on the board, he tells Euronews Next in an interview. Fast forward 25 years and the ...

Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann hit out at Hikaru Nakamura for criticizing “stricter anti-cheating measures” in the Candidates ...

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. When Matt ...

An 8-year-old chess prodigy made history as the youngest player to defeat a chess grandmaster. The boy, Aswath Kaushik, beat Jacek Stopa at a chess tournament in Switzerland. Kaushik, who was born in ...

Following a landmark decision at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the burden is now on Russia to dissolve its chess ...