Champions Showdown

Viswanathan Anand won the Tata Steel Chess India blitz tournament in Kolkata. "It was just the most magical day," said the Indian superstar, who tied for first ...

Vishy Anand didn't win a game in the rapid section of Tata Steel Chess India, then started with 2 draws and a loss in blitz. His local fans in Ko...

Magnus Carlsen switched to 1.c4 for Game 4 of the 2018 World Chess Championship in London, but when he rejected a pawn break on move 15 the game ...

It's three games, three draws in the 2018 World Chess Championship match in London, with Black the side pushing at the end of all three of them. ...

Hikaru Nakamura won the rapid part of the inaugural Tata Steel Chess India tournament in Kolkata. The American grandmaster scored 1.5 on the final day, ...

The interest in Magnus Carlsen's match against Fabiano Caruana is so great that it's tough for other chess events to compete, though we have a nu...

Magnus Carlsen had White in Game 2 of the World Chess Championship in London, but like Fabiano Caruana a day earlier he soon found himself in tro...

Fabiano Caruana is an American chess player playing Magnus Carlsen in the World Championships. If he wins, he'll be the first American to do so since Bobby ...

Magnus Carlsen was on the brink of opening the 2018 World Chess Championship in London with a brilliant win with the black pieces, but just when ...

Fabiano Caruana is an American chess player playing Magnus Carlsen in the World Championships. If he wins, he'll be the first American to do so since Bobby ...

Fabiano Caruana is an American chess player playing Magnus Carlsen in the World Championships. If he wins, he'll be the first American to do so since Bobby ...

2nd seed Humpy Koneru, 6th seed Aleksandra Goryachkina and 8th seed Tan Zhongyi were among the top players to be knocked out in Round 2 of the Wo...

Round two of the 2018 knockout Women's World Championship culminated with a handful of upsets, a few fighting matches and a couple of favourites ...

Women hate me, I repel them!” was something you never expected to hear from World Champion Magnus Carlsen, but that was his reply when asked if ...

Ding Liren beat Radek Wojtaszek and Yu Yangyi overcame Nikita Vitiugov as blood was finally spilt in Round 5 of the Shenzhen Masters. Going into ...

Zurab Azmaiparashvili, the president of the European Chess Union (ECU), apologized on Facebook for having insinuated a possible case of cheating at the ...

10th seed Elisabeth Paehtz was beaten by 18-year-old Iranian Mobina Alinasab as the first round of the Women's World Championship reduced the fie...

The Carlsen-Caruana World Championship match starts this Friday in London, and we're thrilled to announce the most star power we've ever assembled ...