The ongoing dispute between the international chess federation (FIDE) and Magnus Carlsen escalated when the governing body ...

Gukesh has dethroned Arjun Erigaisi after the latter had a mighty slump with a series of poor performances in the Tata Steel ...

FIDE has urged the Freestyle series to refrain from using the "World Championship" designation. The federation has made it ...

The win makes Gukesh the new India no 1 (and the world no 4) in the live ratings, which are updated in real-time.

World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen quit the World Rapid Chess Championship on Friday after he refused to change out of the jeans he was wearing, according to the International Chess Federation (FIDE). Carlsen ...

The FIDE statement also puts in a quandary the participation of India's D Gukesh and Viswanathan Anand in the high-profile ...

The first day of the World Championship in the shorter versions of chess saw five rounds of rapid chess and teenagers shine ...

This has never happened before, and here it is again! The former Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation Pavel Kolobkov ...

The Freestyle Chess World Championship will kick off next month in Germany with 10 of the top players in the world before legs in Paris, New York, Delhi and Cape Town ...

Top-ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen is headed back to the World Blitz Championship on Monday after its governing body agreed to loosen a dress code that got him fined and denied a late-round game ...

A dispute between the chess federation FIDE and Magnus Carlsen escalates over the branding of the Freestyle Chess series.