Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan—the UAE’s chess-obsessed, jiujitsu-loving intelligence chief—controls vast sums of sovereign wealth. America’s AI giants are scrambling for a piece of it. At a time when ...

World champion Gukesh Dommaraju suffered a shock defeat at the FIDE World Blitz Championship 2025 in Doha after losing to ...

Magnus Carlsen, widely regarded as the greatest chess player of all time, won the World Blitz Championship in December 2025 in Doha, Qatar. It was his ninth world blitz title and the twentieth world ...

When Nathan Schlachter of Big Rock was looking for inspiration to complete his service project for Eagle Scout, he turned to one of his own skill sets and started thinking in a much bigger way. The 17 ...

Chess.com is one of the biggest digital chess platforms in the world, with over 100 million members. But as the site has grown and become more popular, it has also attracted naughty players who break ...

Thanksgiving is about gathering with family and friends to enjoy a hearty meal and maybe watch some football. But for a few hundred people, it's about gathering in uptown Charlotte to play chess. The ...

ST. LOUIS — When it comes to big chess pieces, St. Louis has a message for the rest of the world: Checkmate. The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis on Monday unveiled a king piece that ...