One of the world’s biggest sporting competitions got underway Monday morning, with reigning champion Ding Liren taking game 1 of the World Chess Championship against 18-year-old phenom Gukesh ...

World Chess champion Magnus Carlsen will no longer compete in the World Rapid or Blitz Chess Championships after violating the International Chess Federation’s dress code policy. Carlsen, who was set ...

India’s D Gukesh is the youngest chess world champion of all time, but Russian chess legend Anatoly Karpov feels his achievement was result of an ‘accident’ and Magnus Carlsen remains the undisputed ...

LONDON (WKRC/CBS Newspath) - Magnus Carlsen, the renowned chess grandmaster, withdrew from the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships on Friday after the International Chess Federation (FIDE) ...

Uncrowned is a new destination for all things MMA, boxing, wrestling, and more, featuring Ariel Helwani. Two of the world's top chess players faced off in a match that ended with a fist slam of defeat ...

Last spring, Ding Liren was on top of the chess world. A 30-year-old super grandmaster, Ding had displayed nerves of steel to sweep aside his Russian opponent and become China’s first-ever world ...

The World Chess Federation said Wednesday it will investigate whether Russian chess champ Vladimir Kramnik should be disciplined for the disparaging public statements he made "before and after the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Russia's Vladimir Kramnik meets the media during a news conference after the 10th game of the Chess World Championship in ...

One of the world’s biggest sporting competitions got underway Monday morning, with reigning champion Ding Liren taking game 1 of the World Chess Championship against 18-year-old phenom Gukesh ...