For someone ranked No. 2 in the world, playing competitive games of chess sits curiously low on grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura’s list of priorities. “I look at it as something to do to get away from ...

Two of the world's top chess players faced off in a match that ended with a fist slam of defeat. At the 2025 Norway Chess tournament on June 1, reigning World Chess Champion Gukesh Dommaraju beat the ...

Magnus Carlsen had decided against defending his title in the 2023 Classical World Championship after winning it five ...

Possessing the ability to trump the fiercest rivals in the classical chess style, world champion D Gukesh and Arjun Erigaisi will spearhead India's challenge at the Norway Chess tournament, where they ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world’s No 1 ranked chess professional, has blamed his opponent wearing a watch for his defeat in the Qatar Masters. Kazakh Grandmaster Alisher Suleymenov defeated the Norwegian, ...

Nakamura is not your average chess player. More than 20 years after he became the youngest ever American at the time to earn the grandmaster title at just 15 years old, the former child prodigy now ...