Caoimhin O’Gallchobhair is rom Belfast, he is a digital native, social media alien. He is currently making another game about ...

On a cold November afternoon in 1844, players in Washington opened a chess game in the old, familiar way, with a pawn pushed ...

Chennai Grand Masters is an elite-level annual closed tournament held every year in what is widely considered the chess ...

Sinn Fein call for agreed Ireland unlikely to impress unionists . SINN Féin’s ard fheis at the weekend didn’t get much coverage in the north mainly because northern media out ...

In the Netflix film, Magnus Carlsen does not say sorry for accusing Hans Niemann of cheating without any evidence ...

IT’S long been seen as the bastion of geeks and brainiacs but the world of chess has had its fair share of shocking scandals.

In July 1993, a disguised player entered the World Open chess tournament in Philadelphia using the name of a mathematician ...

Joint-leader R Vaishali (7 points) needs to beat last edition’s winner Tan Zhongyi in the 13th and penultimate round on ...

Last week, the streaming giant released new feature-length documentary, Untold: Chess Mates, and it has since climbed up the ...

And yet, as a three-time National Chess Champion and a two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, I love to play against them. Not ...

Indian chess prodigy Nihal Sarin brushed off an online opponent’s rude gesture earlier this year, focusing instead on his ...