“We have all the microphones and the cameras and so on to look into the brains of the best chess players of the world.” Some professional chess players echoed Carlsen’s complaints about the ...

Magnus Carlsen is betting that his Freestyle Chess tournament can lure new fans to the game, while engaging the hardcore enthusiasts.

Dr. Bei Zeng was a chess champion in China until a supercomputer’s victory over the world’s best player put her on a path to the forefront of quantum computing as a physics professor at The ...

Magnus Carlsen hated homework and blossomed when he no longer had to go to school. Today, he plays chess according to a new ...

Some of the biggest names in Chess are coming to Esports Stadium Arlington this fall. Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Arjun ...

Courtesy of wikimedia commons There’s a new sort of chess. It’s flashy, it’s exciting. It’s called Freestyle Chess, or Chess960, or Fischer Random Chess, depending on who you ask. It was invented ...

Earlier this year, it was announced that chess would be included in the event, with the best players in the world competing for a $1.5 million prize pool – playing a new format which is deemed ...