Javokhir Sindarov is destroying the competition for a spot in the world championship match. Even Magnus Carlsen is stunned.

When most people think of chess, they picture elderly gentlemen hunched over boards in the park, contemplating their next ...

NBA players are spending more time than ever working on the boards -- but we're not talking rebounds.

The winner of the Candidates Tournament, a 20-year-old Uzbek, relies on his intuition and computers, and has not studied the ...

On a cold November afternoon in 1844, players in Washington opened a chess game in the old, familiar way, with a pawn pushed ...

The erstwhile chess world champion broke earnings records for the game ...

Bodhana Sivanandan still needs a booster seat to see the chess board, but that has not stopped her from becoming one of the world’s best players. The fifth grader is now the youngest-ever female ...

Everybody heard the outlandish cheating accusations. Now Hans Niemann is ready to fight for his reputation, and a chess world ...

The Mediterranean shores of Cyprus were on a high tide this Wednesday as some of the best female chess masters in the world ...

The world’s No 1 chess player, Magnus Carlsen, reported an opponent for having a phone moments after he agreed to take a ...

A decade ago, Hassabis's lifelong enduring love of play and AI led to AlphaGo beating the world's deepest board game. The ...