FIDE World Chess Championship 2026 in Geneva: 14 classical games to 7.5 points, tiebreaks, time controls, draws, and live ...

The 6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners kicked off on October 13, bringing together incarcerated ...

By KaranPrashant Saxena BENGALURU, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Kazakh businessman Timur Turlov was elected the eighth president of world chess governing body FIDE on Saturday after a closely fought contest at ...

For the 38-year-old Turlov, the move from finance into international sport may look unlikely. He founded Freedom Finance in 2008, took Freedom Holding Corp. onto Nasdaq in 2019, and grew what began as ...

To elect Mr. Timur Turlov as FIDE President and Mr. Viswanathan Anand as FIDE Deputy President.  GA-2026/04 To elect the ...

Several squads, including Team India, were left stranded upon arrival in Samarkand for the Chess Olympiad and were forced to ...

The election on Saturday went into two rounds after the Turlov-Anand campaign secured 96 votes, just one short of the 97 votes needed to win ...

The World Amateur Chess Championships are due to take place in Malaysia next month despite entry restrictions on Israeli citizens that appear to conflict with FIDE's own commitment to equal access.

The world governing body is preparing to relax classical chess time controls after a General Assembly vote, but disagreements ...

FIDE announced reimbursement and compensation for teams affected by accommodation problems at the Chess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand, following complaints from Indian Grandmasters Srinath Narayanan and ...