The International Chess Federation—the international governing body for chess—unveiled new policies that prohibit transgender women from competing in women’s events, as sports like swimming and ...

Thanks to the pandemic and hit Netflix show The Queen’s Gambit, interest in virtual chess has spiked. More Americans now play chess than tennis and golf combined, and most of that is online. In the ...

Next month, the World Chess Championship will be played in New York City between the reigning champ, 25-year-old Magnus Carlsen, and 26-year-old Sergey Karjakin, who still holds the record as the ...

The millennia-old pastime of chess has been enjoying an explosion of interest. Whether people are longing for any engaging hobby to keep themselves sane during the long wait, or they fell prey to a ...

Finishing off our week of niche social networks comes a newish social networking offering from chess portal Chess.com. Chess.com is dedicated to becoming the premier online social networking community ...

Chess.com recently put out a blog post about the site’s overloaded servers When Netflix released “The Queen’s Gambit,” chess.com also struggled to keep up with the uptick in traffic. This simple ...

Watch a video of the Hip-Hop Chess Federation Tournament's first annual "Chess Kings" championship. The RZA — of the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan — won the top prize, playing and besting his own ...

Hans Niemann is set to compete in the U.S. Chess Championships beginning Wednesday. Chess.com released a 72-page report on the 19-year-old American grandmaster Author of the article: You can save this ...

In the eyes of the world's top chess player, 19-year-old chess grandmaster Hans Niemann is a cheater. The world's top chess website apparently agrees. An investigation conducted by Chess.com into the ...

Hans Niemann, a teenage chess grandmaster, said he is "not going to back down," as he faces allegations of cheating. Speaking after winning a game against 15-year-old grandmaster Christopher Yoo on ...

An American grandmaster sued Magnus Carlsen, the world’s top player, and two other parties after Carlsen accused him of cheating. A settlement has been announced. By Dylan Loeb McClain A $100 million ...