The teams are in. Here are the players heading to Samarkand for the 2026 Chess Olympiad, with the USA top seeds in the Open ...

With FIDE's Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, drawing close, here's how chess is transforming the lives of refugee ...

It's been an incredible week of chess—make no mistake. And we have a cheating controversy to get our teeth into. First and foremost, the FIDE Candidates, the biggest most consequential tournament of ...

The application for the game’s official top-level domain has been submitted to ICANN — the first chance in over a decade to ...

Everything you need to know about the 2026 FIDE election: candidates Timur Turlov, Wadim Rosenstein and Jan Henric Buettner, ...

Turlov believes artificial intelligence could become part of the solution. With AI models now capable of tackling ...

The 2026 FIDE Chess Olympiad takes place in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, from September 15 to 27. Here is everything you need to ...

Magnus Carlsen will headline the first Total Chess World Championship Tour pilot in Budapest in November. Here is everything ...

World Champion Gukesh D will defend his crown against Javokhir Sindarov in Geneva this November in the youngest World Chess ...

FIDE has published the electoral roll for this month's presidential election. It reveals 13 federations with a complaint or ...

The World Championship challenger says Gukesh's recent struggles mean little ahead of their big showdown—and he is preparing ...

Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi renew one of the defining rivalries of recent chess history on Sunday when they meet at ...