Chess looking for new audiences with Esports World Cup looming Chess is getting ready to make its foray into Esports with teams recruiting top players ahead of this summer's Esports World Cup ...

You can pick up a plastic set for $20, but a wooden set certified for the World Chess Championship costs $500. Much of the value of a high-quality set comes down to how well just one piece is made ...

IBM's Deep Blue system achieved its first victory over a world chess champion on February 10, 1996, when it won the first game of a six-game match against Garry Kasparov. Despite this initial loss ...

Russian-born chess grandmaster and émigré Gennadi “Genna” Sosonko still remembers where he was 40 years ago today, when he heard that the 1984-85 World Championship match in Moscow between ...

Indian prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju broke new ground to reach the World Chess Championship and the 18-year-old Friends fan is now hot favourite to win the title and make more history. Gukesh will be ...