The International Chess Federation says top ranked player Magnus Carlsen has left the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships after refusing to change out of the jeans he wore to the competition ...

The World Rapid Chess Championships descended into farce after officials fined the world’s best player, Magnus Carlsen, for ...

World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen quit the World Rapid Chess Championship Friday after he refused to change out of a pair ...

A dispatch from the pivotal Game 11 in Singapore that helped make Gukesh Dommaraju an 18-year-old chess champion.

First edition of the Gulu end of year open chess championship was successfully concluded at Elephante Commons in Gulu city on ...

Gukesh’s ascent to chess stardom has been extraordinary. By March 2017, he earned the title of International Master. Later, at just 12 years, 7 months, and 17 days old, he became the third ...

Cedric Abris is half a point ahead with three rounds to play. CEDRIC KHALEL ABRIS downed Phil Martin Casiguran in the fifth round over the weekend to seize the solo lead after five rounds of the ...

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Gukesh stunned China's Ding Liren on Thursday when he seized upon an unfortunate blunder to win the last game of the World Chess Championship ... in the back pages of national newspapers alongside ...