The chess world erupted over a cheeky joke from Chess.com asking players for “new name ideas” for one of the game’s pieces.

They did it with baking. They did it with sewing. They did it with pottery. Can they do it with chess? By adding enough double entendres, excitable co-presenters and ludicrously overstated stakes ...

As somebody who was never interested in chess until I engaged with just one piece of chess media, I thought that other people, if they could just engage with one thing about chess, that would ...

A chess grandmaster (GM) admitted to cheating last year during a championship tournament. This grandmaster has now been temporarily banned from competing in the game as a result of his actions. Chess.

Five-time classical chess world champion Carlsen is hunting ... leading Jets 3:57 AM UTC · Updated ago Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia ...

His death was confirmed by the International Chess Federation, the game's governing body. No cause was given. Spassky was "one of the greatest players of all time," the group said on social media.

R Ashwin, back with Chennai Super Kings after nine years, recently enjoyed a chess game with world champion D Gukesh at the ...