You can pick up a plastic set for $20, but a wooden set certified for the World Chess Championship costs $500 ... artisans begin to carve. Artisans use particular steel tools, called cutters ...

SINGAPORE—On Thursday night in Singapore, in the fifth hour of the fourteenth game of a world championship chess match that had ground on for nearly a month, Gukesh Dommaraju noticed something ...

Gujarat's Pragnika Vaka secured the world champion ... and other strong chess-playing countries were competing. She knew that if she won the eighth round, she would be champion.

Over the next few weeks, Gukesh, still fresh into adulthood, could become the youngest-ever chess world champion ... resisted the use of computer or chess engine assistance until Gukesh was ...

French grandmaster Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, the 2021 blitz world champion, signed a one-year deal with European powerhouse Team Vitality, one of 10 Esports teams to feature at least a chess player ...

FIDE World School Championships 2025 is set to begin on 19 March, and the event will see young chess prodigies around the world compete in several age groups. The tournament will be held in ...

but the Norwegian has ruled out a return to the classical World Chess Championship. Carlsen, a five-time world champion, last won the title in 2021 but has opted not to participate in the event ...