Outgoing Namibia Chess Federation (NCF) president Goodwill Khoa, who led the executive committee (exco) alongside vice-president Emanuel Sihlahla, stepped away from its ...

The fourth leg of the 2024-25 FIDE Women's Grand Prix is set to take place in Nicosia, Cyprus, from March 14-25, under the ...

The jeans Magnus Carlsen wore when he withdrew from the World Rapid and Blitz Championships in 2024 have been sold in an eBay ...

When Nigel Short was a young boy living with his family in a small, rainy village outside Manchester, England, he spent countless hours indoors learning how to play chess - ...

Boris Spassky, the Soviet chess grandmaster who lost a highly politicized showdown—the "Match of the Century"—with American champion Bobby Fischer at the peak of the Cold War, has died. The ...

Spassky had been confined to a wheelchair since suffering a debilitating stroke in 2010. Arkady Dvorkovich, president of chess’ governing body FIDE, called Spassky “one of the greatest players ...

When Mr. Spassky, a Russian, played Bobby Fischer, an American, in Iceland at the height of the Cold War, the media attention ...

In response, Freestyle Chess released an open letter, which also leaked alleged WhatsApp messages with FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich. Freestyle Chess co-founders Jan Henric Buettner and Magnus ...

Grzegorz Gajewski’s observation and also D Gukesh’s earlier comments create a sense of confusion as he is participating at the upcoming Paris Grand Slam event.

You’ve defeated yourself off the board, only a matter of time until you face the same fate on the board,” Niemann had written on X in response to a post by Carlsen that had targeted FIDE president ...

Following the criticism, FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich addressed the controversy, indicating that the organisation will re-examine its dress code policy to ensure it aligns with the evolving ...