Divya Deshmukh, Koneru Humpy and R Vaishali have qualified for the Women’s Candidates while R Praggnanandhaa is the only ...

FIDE and Norway Chess announce the inaugural Total World Chess Championship, featuring classical, rapid, and blitz formats with $750,000 prize fund.

Ju Wenjun (second from left), the Women’s World Blitz Chess Champion, and Lei Tingjie (first from left), the runner-up, receive their awards of the 2024 FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championships in New ...

A team captain, like a captain in the Davis Cup team in tennis, does not play in games, but is in charge of overall strategy ...

Harikrishna quietly went about his business at the Fide World Cup and will now don a different hat at the Global Chess League ...

If the chess universe believes in coincidences, it’s being unusually generous this season. Because somehow, two teenagers — born literally one day apart, minding their own 19-year-old business — ...

Promotion of game at home critical part of long-term gambit to cement growing prowess on the board, Wang Mingjie reports in London. Ju (second from left), the Women's World Blitz Chess Champion, and ...

Doha: Norwegian former world champion Magnus Carlsen has officially confirmed his participation in the Qatar 2025 Rapid and Blitz Chess World Cup. The International Chess Federation (FIDE) announced ...

World Champion Gukesh D and World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen are among more than 360 players who have confirmed their participation in the FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship in Doha. The event, ...

World Champion D. Gukesh and Magnus Carlsen headline a field of more than 360 players confirmed for the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship in Doha. The Blitz Open has drawn 233 ...