The world's most elite chess players are back at the board, ready to resume a tournament in Russia, after the global health crisis abruptly halted it more than a year ago. But organizers are now ...

Explore the challenges female chess players face in a male-dominated landscape and the impact of participation rates on skill disparities. Three years ago, Lawrence Summers, former president of ...

The new hit Netflix show “The Queen’s Gambit” follows a young woman’s spectacular rise through the male-dominated world of chess. To discuss the series and its impact, Christiane speaks with two of ...

The U.S. has more chess grandmasters than Russia for the first time, as a growing number of top Russian players are opting against representing their country following Vladimir Putin's decision to ...

A fiery feud has broken out between two grandmasters after a former chess world champion accused America's top player of cheating. Russia's Vladimir Kramnik, 48, sparked the clash by casting doubt ...

Hikaru Nakamura plays chess like he talks — at a hundred miles an hour. The 35-year-old grandmaster has been the top ranked US player for over a decade and livestreams rapid fire games of online blitz ...

A Wayzata High School student has done what no other homegrown Minnesota chess player ever has: earned the game's highest title of grandmaster. And another student in the Wayzata district, a ...

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When Hikaru Nakamura and Gata Kamsky faced Vladimir Kramnik and Alexander Grischuk in the ninth round of the 40th World Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, the seasoned grandmasters drew upon years of ...

More than a dozen children gather under a canopy in Makoko, the floating slum in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial center. Aged 8 to 18, they are focused on the chess boards before them, calculating moves ...