The World Chess Championship was already a week old when something stunning happened in Game 6: after nearly eight hours of play last Friday, someone actually won. It was the first time in five years ...

It's almost 18 years since IBM's Deep Blue famously beat Garry Kasparov at chess, becoming the first computer to defeat a human world champion. Since then, as you can probably imagine, computers have ...

For a few days, chess fans could be forgiven for wondering if the end of the game was in sight. At the World Chess Championships in Dubai last week, reigning champion Magnus Carlsen from Norway and ...

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 ...

Oliver Roeder is a journalist, author and games player. He is a former senior writer for FiveThirtyEight, where he covered the World Chess Championship and other gaming pursuits. The following is ...

One of the world’s biggest sporting competitions got underway Monday morning, with reigning champion Ding Liren taking game 1 of the World Chess Championship against 18-year-old phenom Gukesh ...

Magnus Carlsen, the Norwegian chess grandmaster and reigning World Chess Champion, won't defend or seek a sixth title in 2023. Carlsen, 31, revealed on his podcast, "The Magnus Effect" that he spent ...

Magnus Carlsen may be the best chess player in the world, but the Norwegian has ruled out a return to the classical World Chess Championship. Carlsen, a five-time world champion, last won the title in ...

The fastest chess variant there is goes harder than ever. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Online chess leader Chess.com is ...