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If you were going to write a movie script, you couldn't have done it better,” says English GM Daniel King. A new feature documentary, Closing Gambit, is being ...

Three weeks before the start of the FIDE world championship, organizer World Chess launched chess dating app Mates. Billed as a way to find an opponent for ...

Magnus Carlsen is set to have the white pieces against Ding Liren in Round 6 of the European Club Cup, with a decisive result ending either the W...

Ding Liren handed a 3rd successive loss to Peter Svidler as top seeds Alkaloid beat 4th seeds Mednyi Vsadnik in Round 4 of the 2018 European Club...

Six teams still have a perfect score after three rounds of the European Club Cup, but it's 9th placed Valerenga Sjakklubb who have been the team ...

2800-players Magnus Carlsen, Ding Liren and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov all play in the 34th European Club Cup, which began in the Porto Carras Grand R...

Over the board, the players consider themselves equals, but online Hikaru Nakamura is still too strong for Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. The American GM won ...

Reigning World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen has played chess against Armenian-German professional boxer Arthur Abraham.

At the 2019 Altibox Norway Chess tournament, players who draw their game will play an Armageddon game right after, forcing a decisive result. The organizers ...

The organisers of the 2019 Altibox Norway Chess tournament have unveiled a new format aimed at reducing the rate of draws. It's either "innovative" or "bizarre" ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan is focused on the national team's upcoming fixtures against Gibraltar and Macedonia in the UEFA ...

By Harut Sassounian. Publisher, The California Courier I wrote an article in September criticizing the Trump administration's dismissal of the International ...

Each encounter in Altibox Norway Chess next year will produce a winner, as one of the world's top supertournaments has decided to trial an idea l...

World Champion Magnus Carlsen returned to Hamburg yesterday evening with the fourth "Play Live Challenge", a clock simultaneous against twelve amateur, ...

World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen had a long day on Monday. First he was in Manchester, England, where Kaspersky Lab sponsored an exhibition ga...

Armen Gyulbudaghyants has been confirmed as head coach of the Armenian national football team, the Football Federation said.

Several chess players have already turned to careers on the political chess board (Nigel Short and Julio Granda only last week!), and at least two more are ...

In the evening of the final round, the closing ceremony of the Batumi Olympiad was held in the Batumi State Musical Center. Here's a pictorial report. With the ...

Ding Liren and Ju Wenjun took gold on top board as the Chinese teams won both the open and women's sections of the 2018 Chess Olympiad in Batumi....