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One of the most anticipated world championship matches in recent memory kicked off Thursday at the The College in Holborn, London. For the first time since ...

10th seed Elisabeth Paehtz was beaten by 18-year-old Iranian Mobina Alinasab as the first round of the Women's World Championship reduced the fie...

The Carlsen-Caruana World Championship match starts this Friday in London, and we're thrilled to announce the most star power we've ever assembled ...

Ding Liren matched Mikhail Tal's 95-game unbeaten streak with a draw in Round 1 of the Shenzhen Masters against the last player to beat him in a ...

The Women's World Championship 2018 knockout in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia runs through November 23rd. The format is a 64-player knockout. Round 6, the ...

Today the first round of the 2018 Women's World Chess Championship starts in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. 64 players from 28 countries will be fighting in a ...

The 64-player FIDE Women's World Championship knockout starts today in Khanty-Mansiysk, and it's also the start of changes in women's chess. Reig...

Books, movies, podcasts: This edition of In Other News, our collection of smaller chess stories, shows that the game is playing out in many forms: Documentary ...

Jan begins Episode 4 of Series 22 of his Opening Clinic with, "I should add a disclaimer here that I'm not a real doctor", but when it comes to che...

The arc of justice is not so long, and it bends toward Poland. After being the hard-luck non-medalists earlier this month at the Chess Olympiad, only a few weeks ...

Husband and wife team Radek Wojtaszek and Alina Kashlinskaya triumphed in the Chess.com Isle of Man International. Radek drew with Arkadij Naidit...

Of the top nine seeds at the start of the Chess.com Isle of Man International only one player, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, goes into the final day wi...

Hikaru Nakamura ended the giant-killing run of Abhijeet Gupta as the race for the £50000 top prize in the Chess.com Isle of Man International he...

Indian Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta wore a Superman cap as he beat 2700 players Le Quang Liem and Vidit in consecutive rounds to join Arkadij Naidi...

In the last three rounds of the 2018 Chess.com Isle of Man International, the number of leaders has gone from two to four to six. You might want to go ahead and ...

Peter Svidler and Sam Shankland both won with the white pieces as their 6-game classical match at the Hoogeveen Chess Tournament got off to an ex...

Grab your saddle. The fifth round of the 2018 Chess.com Isle of Man International was all about knights versus pawns. The final verdict? A draw. Jeffery Xiong's ...

Well, tomorrow's pairings just got easy. Of the six players with perfect scores entering the the fourth day of play at the 2018 Chess.com Isle of Man International, ...

13-year-old Praggnanandhaa played a game of frightening imagination, calculation and technique as he beat Pavel Eljanov in Round 3 of the Chess.com Isle of ...

Vishy Anand and Vladimir Kramnik are among the star names to have struggled in the first two rounds of the Chess.com Isle of Man International. A...