NEW CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / August 7, 2025 / Young chess minds competed and collaborated at the 2025 FIDE World ...

Dubov said: "I dribbled Magnus a couple of times, he started calling me names. I asked him to repeat. We did push each other, ...

The 2025 championship not only crowned India as champions but also celebrated the achievements of Kazakhstan, the USA, and ...

Fresh from her historic Women’s World Cup triumph, 19-year-old Divya Deshmukh underlined her status as India’s brightest ...

The world of chess has been going through somewhat of an evolution in recent years, and it’s showing no signs of slowing down ...

Woah! This is fantastic. I’m so unbelievably impressed by this.” GM Jan Gustaffson added: “Wow! That is a cute finish!” Could ...

Saturday’s 11th game of the best-of-12 World Chess Championship in New York City was a quick, 34-move draw — the ninth draw of the match — and took just more than three hours.

However, this year’s World Chess Championship is somewhat different following reigning champion and five-time winner Magnus Carlsen’s withdrawal and, therefore, abdication of his crown.

A World Chess Championship Without the World’s Best Player A victory by Ian Nepomniachtchi or Ding Liren would come with political overtones. But Magnus Carlsen’s absence is the talk of the final.

The 2021 World Chess Championship ended last week with Magnus Carlen of Norway, the world No. 1, defending his title against challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia. It was Carlsen’s fifth ...