D Gukesh is six months removed from when he lifted the FIDE World Championship title, but it has taken that long for him to return to competitive classical chess action. It couldn’t be a sterner test ...

Two of the world's top chess players faced off in a match that ended with a fist slam of defeat. At the 2025 Norway Chess tournament on June 1, reigning World Chess Champion Gukesh Dommaraju beat the ...

BERLIN — Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen was forced into a draw Monday by more than 143,000 people worldwide playing against him in a single, record-setting game. Billed as “Magnus Carlsen ...

Magnus Carlsen is widely regarded as the greatest chess player of all time. Inevitably, however, we are talking about jeans. “A lot of people want to see some kind of conspiracy behind things,” he ...

For someone ranked No. 2 in the world, playing competitive games of chess sits curiously low on grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura’s list of priorities. “I look at it as something to do to get away from ...

D Gukesh is six months removed from when he lifted the FIDE World Championship title, but it has taken that long for him to return to competitive classical chess action. It couldn’t be a sterner test ...