Jan Timman, the chess grandmaster who has died aged 74, was one of the world’s finest players from the 1970s through to the 1990s; in an era of Soviet dominance he was known as “the Best of the West”.

Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky unexpectedly passed away in Charlotte, North Carolina. The media figure's death was announced by his chess club, the Charlotte Chess Center, and they shared a ...

Judit Polgár won the very first chess tournament she ever played in. She was 6 years old. The Hungarian-born prodigy's impressive rise to chess stardom, which included becoming the world's top-ranked ...

A three-time National Chess Champion breaks down what playing chess against LLMs can teach us.

Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha has become the youngest player in chess history to earn an official FIDE rating at the age of three years, seven months and 20 days. Born in 2022, Sarwagya — from Sagar in the ...

At the highest levels of play, chess matches come down to exacting decision-making under immense time pressure. Top grandmasters are now feeling that extraordinary stress in their own lives, caught in ...

Magnus Carlsen's best move may have been marrying his wife, Ella Victoria Carlsen. The renowned Norwegian chess grandmaster married Ella in January 2025. Before meeting Magnus, Ella's interest in ...

The teenage chess player who World No.1 Magnus Carlsen took a selfie with and then reported her to judges for using her phone has thanked the grandmaster and insists she has 'no hard feelings' about ...

The chess prodigy's rise to stardom unfolds in director Rory Kennedy's new film 'Queen of Chess' Yves Forestier/Sygma via Getty; Courtesy of Netflix Judit Polgár's rise to chess stardom is documented ...