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 ...

The 2021 U.S. Chess Championship winners are Asian Americans Grandmaster Wesley So and International Master Carissa Yip. The Grandmaster: On Oct. 19, Filipino American Wesley So made history by ...

Four-Time Defending World Champion MAGNUS CARLSEN faces Challenger IAN NEPOMNIACHTCHI to Determine 2021 World Champion NBCSN to Provide 30-Minute Highlight Programs of All Games from Nov. 28 – Dec. 16 ...

Magnus Carlsen of Norway successfully defended his world chess championship title on Friday, extending an unbroken reign atop the game that began in 2013. He defeated his challenger, Ian ...

World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen defeated challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi in the 2021 World Chess Championship, extending Carlsen’s eight-year reign. Postponed from late 2020 due to Covid-19, the ...

Krush is an eight-time U.S. women's champion. The 2021 U.S. Chess Championships are underway and Irina Krush is back to defend her title. Krush is an eight-time U.S. women's champion and the only ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Nine minutes after the Denver Chess Club tournament started Oct. 16 in an Embassy Suites hotel, and eight months after his fourth brain surgery, Griffin ...

Returning champion Aleksander Kubica successful defended his title and won the second annual quantum chess tournament during last week's Q2B conference on quantum computing. The tournament was ...

Begim Tokhirjonova is a chess Woman Grandmaster, but she has higher ambitions. She's aiming for the highest title: Grandmaster. A junior at the University of Missouri, she is a business major.

Jeffery Xiong, 20, of Plano is competing in a top U.S. national chess tournament starting this week in St. Louis.(Photo provided by Chess Club of St. Louis) When Jeffery Xiong of Plano was 5 years old ...