Magnus Carlsen has done it again. After winning the inaugural chess competition at the Esports World Cup (EWC) last year, the Norwegian Grandmaster successfully defended his crown after beating Denis ...

Hungary, Budapest, September 23, 2026 – Total Chess World Championship Tour, the FIDE-approved global event conceptualised by Norway Chess, has announced six more leading international chess players ...

Partnership builds on Freedom's long-term support for international chess as Geneva prepares to host the historic ...

At 16, Nigerian chess player Sandra Omoruyi is aiming higher after winning the World Rapid Amateur Chess Championship in Abuja in August. In this interview with EBENEZER BAJELA, she reflects on her ...

View post: ‘The Studio’ Season 2: Everything We Know So Far Carlsen lost to Firouzja in the first round of Norway Chess 2026. Firouzja now leads with three points after a tense, time-pressured victory ...

Uzbekistan's Javokhir Sindarov has just ripped apart some of the best chess players in the world to set up a World Championship match with the defending champion Dommaraju Gukesh. We don't exactly ...

Chess returned to the Esports World Cup for a second year, with an expanded 22-player field. The August 11–15 tournament had a $1.5 million prize pool, including $250,000 for the champion. Regulation ...

Norway’s world No 1 outclassed the field and won the $250,000 first prize at the four-day event in France ...

If a fervent chess player seeking a challenging game partner doesn’t happen to live in a major city such as St. Louis, Missouri, home of the World Chess Hall of Fame, the next best thing might be ...

The Soviet Union’s domination of chess was not an accident: decades before the Cold War, the state was already pouring resources into turning the game from an elite pastime into a mass national ...

The International Chess Federation (FIDE) and Freedom Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: FRHC) announced today that Freedom has become the General Partner of the Salesforce FIDE World Championship Match 2026.