The 2025 US Chess Championships are taking place on 12-24 October at the Saint Louis Chess Club. Each tournament is a 12-player single round-robin with a classical time control. Fabiano Caruana, Wesle...

Vincent Keymer raised his live Elo rating to 2771.7 with his third victory in three games at the European Club Cup in Rhodes. He is currently fourth in the world rankings, just ahead of Praggnanandhaa...

He earned the highest title in the chess world as he built a career as an accomplished chess teacher, commentator and author.

Today, his family announced the death of Daniel Naroditsky. The talented American grandmaster was an active online player and streamer, as well as a popular commentator. He would have turned 30 on 9 N...

The 2025 US Chess Championships are taking place on 12-24 October at the Saint Louis Chess Club. Each tournament is a 12-player single round-robin with a classical time control. Fabiano Caruana, Wesle...

In October and November 2000, the World Championship match between Garry Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik took place in London under unusual circumstances. With the rediscovered Berlin Defence, Kramnik n...

New adaptations of Emma, Pride and Prejudice and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights explore slavery, pervy nuns and death in childbirth. Count me in, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The 2025 European Club Cup and European Women's Club Cup begin this weekend in Rhodes, Greece, bringing together no fewer than 122 teams and around 800 players from across the continent. The seven-rou...

The 2025 US Chess Championships are taking place on 12-24 October at the Saint Louis Chess Club. Each tournament is a 12-player single round-robin with a classical time control. Fabiano Caruana, Wesle...

Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere soared by a record amount in 2024 to hit another high, UN data shows, deepening the climate crisis that is already

The 2025 US Chess Championships are taking place on 12-24 October at the Saint Louis Chess Club. Each tournament is a 12-player single round-robin with a classical time control. Fabiano Caruana, Wesle...

In a surprising move, FIDE has officially approved a new world championship format: the Total Chess World Championship Tour, organized by Norway Chess. The Tour will determine a FIDE World Combined Ch...

The ninth and final round of the European Team Championships will determine the medal winners. In the Open Ukraine and Azerbaijan fight for victory, in the Women's Tournament Poland is in the lead, but Ukraine and Germany can still hope to win. | Watch the games live with video commentary. Start: Around 10:00 CEST.

The 2025 US Chess Championships are taking place on 12-24 October at the Saint Louis Chess Club. Each tournament is a 12-player single round-robin with a classical time control. Fabiano Caruana, Wesle...

At the US National Championship, which began on Sunday, arbiter Chris Bird helped to create an image that will likely find its way into the collection of the most curious chess photos. He stood next t...

The Saint Louis Chess Club will soon host the 2025 US Chess Championship and the 2025 US Women's Championship, running from 12 to 24 October in its newly expanded venue. With a prize fund exceeding $4...

After six rounds of play at the European Team Chess Championship in Batumi, Ukraine have strengthened their position at the top of the open standings, while Poland have taken firm control of the women...

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From October 5 to October 14, the European Team Chess Championships are taking place in Batumi, Georgia. In the Open section, Germany — runner-up in 2023 in Budva — is the top seed, followed by the Ne...

The fifth round of the European Team Chess Championship in Batumi brought a major shift in both leaderboards. In the open section, Ukraine defeated the defending champions from Serbia to take the sole...