Playing Magnus Carlsen feels different from the very first move. The pressure builds quietly, mistakes feel inevitable, and ...

Trash talk is common online, but chess has a way of settling things quietly. One player talked nonstop before the match, confident the board would back him up. Once the game began, the tone shifted ...

Magnus Carlsen has been been of a number of standout moments with younger players in recent editions of the ‘Titled Tuesday’. And in the two-day ‘Titled Tuesday Grand Prix’ that got underway on 17 ...

Sometimes I rage-played. I’d make a blunder, lose ELO, and immediately queue up to win it back. It reminded me of a casino, ...

The top U.S. chess player discusses his YouTube channel, how he would change the game and why he doesn't want his son to ...

The prestigious Tata Steel Chess tournament in the Netherlands is a multi-week event that concluded Feb. 1. Nordirbek Abdusattorov won the event. Fellow Uzbekistani Javokhir Sindarov placed second.

JANELLE Mae Frayna did a Houdini act in surviving Shania Mae Mendoza on Wednesday to seal her an Olympiad seat and pushed her ...

A couple of years ago, a kind man taught me to play chess, a redo of the very early attempt by my father to teach me when I ...

We often treat our daily choices as a mishmash of random events. But like a grandmaster, we need to realize that every move changes the board.

Gukesh has not been able to perform at his best since winning the world title in late 2024. Image: Reuters/X Italian-American chess grandmaster Fabiano Caruana has described world champion D Gukesh’s ...

Fabiano Caruana, who is one of the glaring omissions from the Tata Steel Chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee, has weighed in on the one-move blunder from world champion Gukesh Dommaraju against Nodirbek ...

I can’t be the only one who has noticed that experts are getting a lot of things wrong these days. I don’t want to get political here, but if you start to add up the various whopping blunders of the ...