As far as chess tournaments go, the Louisiana State Championship and Iowa Open are not what you would describe as big-time events. The highest-ranked players from either event last year didn't even ...

Hikaru Nakamura becomes the first player to reach a 3500 blitz rating on Chess.com, opening a 100-point gap over Magnus Carlsen after an extraordinary winning run.

Chess has recently been enjoying a spike in popularity. This is predominantly thanks to the Netflix series Queen's Gambit, as well as the rise of chess streamers and chess competitions on Twitch that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hikaru Nakamura, left, has rubbished allegations levelled against him by Russian grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik (Getty) Hikaru ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For someone ranked No. 2 in the world, playing competitive games of chess sits curiously low on grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura's list ...

Sometimes it’s the small sprinkles of strangeness that stand out the most. If you had told me several years ago that 2020 would bring daily disasters of incomprehensible consequence, I probably would ...

Nelly Korda's season-leading scoring average won't win her the Vare Trophy. See how eligibility rules handed the award to Japan's Miyu Yamashita instead. Nelly Korda misses the Vare Trophy due to LPGA ...

For someone ranked No. 2 in the world, playing competitive games of chess sits curiously low on grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura’s list of priorities. “I look at it as something to do to get away from ...