The World Chess Championship was already a week old when something stunning happened in Game 6: after nearly eight hours of play last Friday, someone actually won. It was the first time in five years ...

It's almost 18 years since IBM's Deep Blue famously beat Garry Kasparov at chess, becoming the first computer to defeat a human world champion. Since then, as you can probably imagine, computers have ...

For a few days, chess fans could be forgiven for wondering if the end of the game was in sight. At the World Chess Championships in Dubai last week, reigning champion Magnus Carlsen from Norway and ...

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World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen played his first match at the World Blitz Championship after initially quitting the chess tournament due to a dress code dispute with organizers. On Friday, Carlsen walked ...

After 9 draws in 13 games, Gukesh capitalised on an error by Ding and won the final game of the 14-game contest to be crowned ...

Ding Liren slumped over the board with fallen chess pieces scattered in front of him in the moments after he won the Chess World Championship last year. His head bowed, his expression blank, he seemed ...

The fastest chess variant there is goes harder than ever. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Online chess leader Chess.com is ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Larry Kaufman’s good at chess. In November, he won the world ...