A row is brewing in the world of chess – at the center of it are a disgruntled world federation and a chess variant – with millions on the line.

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Chess grand master Magnus Carlsen is promoting a new tour that scrambles the game’s rules — and has prompted criticism from ...

Judit Polgar agreed with D Gukesh's chief trainer's observation that Chess960 is ‘completely different’ from the standard variant.

FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. For 40 years, the chess world has been debating why ...

When Jan Henric Buettner, chess’s newest disruptor ... Story continues below this ad Fischer Random 960 was a format made popular by American Bobby Fischer decades ago. FIDE had tried to organise ...

Vantika Agrawal, inspired by chess as a child, became a double gold medallist at the 2024 Chess Olympiad and recently ...

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Many US businesses closed in protest against Trump’s immigration policies on a ‘day without immigrants’.

Emerging on Chess Records in the 50s fronting a piano trio, Chicago-born Lewis racked up a trio of finger-clicking crossover pop hits in the mid-60s (the biggest was 1965’s “The In Crowd ...