International chess is highly competitive. The top of the world game is dominated by Magnus Carlsen, who this Saturday at 1pm GMT starts his eagerly awaited campaign at Wijk aan Zee with his new ...

English chess is celebrating a historic week for two chess prodigies after the International Chess Federation (FIDE) awarded 15-year-old Shreyas Royal the title of Grandmaster (GM) and 9-year-old ...

The University of Warwick is set to host the annual British Chess Championships next summer. The event, in its 112th year, will be held in venues on the university's campus in Coventry from 1 to 9 ...

A female chess champion says she hopes her success will inspire more girls to get into the game. Former English Women's Chess ...

Late summer is the traditional time for a new chess season, but this year clubs are reopening and weekend congresses resuming amid a basic uncertainty. On the one hand, Covid-19 wiped out almost all ...

The genteel world of British chess has been rocked after a top grandmaster claimed the game of kings is riddled with cheats. Daniel Gormally, 38, suggested the game is facing an epidemic of people ...

A race row has engulfed the normally cerebral world of English chess after claims that three young Muslim players suffered abuse from parents of other competitors. Tomasina Contu, with her children ...

Chess prodigy Beth Harmon, played by actress Anya Taylor-Joy, reads a chess pamphlet in Netflix's miniseries "The Queen Gambit." Netflix Netflix's "The Queen's Gambit" has inspired a surge of interest ...

The English Chess Federation has given an important job promoting the game to women to a man. Campaigners have accused the EDF of sexism after it emerged it rejected two female candidates for the role ...

The United Kingdom has decided to allow a 9-year-old chess prodigy to remain in the country, after his father's work visa expired and his family faced deportation back to India. Shreyas Royal is "very ...

Indian Chess Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa recently took to social media to share a chess-related question that was asked in his Class 12 English exam. India’s Chess Grandmaster, R Praggnanandhaa, ...