Intelligence is attractive, and so are these 11 chess grandmasters and players, whose moves have us locked in checkmate.

Zoey Tang started playing chess at age 7 in a local library. Now, at just 16, she’s No. 1 in the U.S. and ready to be named a woman grandmaster.

Among those implicated was Wang Tianyi, the sport’s top-ranked player for over a decade. Known as the “Alien” for his unconventional rise to fame outside traditional chess circles, Wang’s name ...

Liverpool is set to host the 2025 British Chess Championships for the first time since the city was Capital of Culture in ...

India's Gukesh scored a win over compatriot Leon Mendonca in ninth round of the Tata Steel Masters to go clear at the top.

After a war of words with world No 1 Magnus Carlsen, FIDE CEO Emil Sutovsky had taken aim at American Grandmaster and popular ...

At the Weissenhaus Resort, the world’s top players will come together, among them Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura and Dommaraju Gukesh, the newly crowned world chess champion, who is 18 years old.

World No. 3 Hikaru Nakamura has urged the world's top chess players, such as D Gukesh, to boycott FIDE, which could put his world championship title under doubt ...

In a video posted on his YouTube handle, Hikaru Nakamura called out Sutovsky's long tweet where the FIDE official took ...

India’s top-ranked chess player Arjun Erigaisi accepted a draw against Serbian GM Alexey Sarana. Arjun was playing with white ...

“I’m a very top player in terms of girls’ chess, but I wouldn’t call myself a prodigy,” Tang said. “I don’t think I have that huge amount of innate talent.” Tang has already met ...