Bodhana Sivanandan started playing chess when she came across a board during the COVID pandemic ...

The achievement has now added a third Guinness World Records title to her growing list of milestones.

A British child chess prodigy has become the youngest player in history to earn the woman grandmaster (WGM) title. Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, from north-west London, secured her thir ...

An 11-year-old chess prodigy has become the youngest woman grandmaster of all time, after a strong performance at the 46th ...

Timur Turlov was elected FIDE President today in Samarkand, winning the runoff 110–85 over Wadim Rosenstein after taking 96 ...

The inaugural FIDE Excellence Awards were presented in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, bringing together the global chess community to ...

Tech Mahindra Global Chess League (GCL), a joint initiative of Tech Mahindra and FIDE, and Couchbase, the Operational Data ...

There are many chess robots, most of which require the human player to move the opposing pieces themselves, or have a built-in mechanism that can slide the opposing pieces around to their new location ...

South Africa’s Open and Women’s teams recorded notable individual performances at the 2026 FIDE Chess Olympiad in Samarkand.

Uzbekistan is rewarding its chess players with $5,000 for becoming grandmasters and $200,000 for winning Olympiad gold.

The Ukrainian Chess Federation (UCF) issued a protest on Sept. 28 after Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to the Presidential Office, accepted the title of vice president at the International Chess ...

Chess.com users reported problems launching games and maintaining connections on Wednesday, according to Downdetector, although the scale and cause of the disruption remained unclear.