July 21 (Reuters) - World number one Magnus Carlsen will compete in November's pilot event of the FIDE-approved Total Chess ...

Among the other 17 players who have qualified via various pathways are Gukesh, Vaishali R, Arjun Erigaisi, Praggnanandhaa R ...

Total Chess World Championship Tour: A new era in elite chess will start this November when Budapest hosts the official pilot ...

As the chess boom takes hold, getting official recognition as a sport will unlock funding, says the Irish Chess Union ...

SAINT LOUIS, Mo., April 28, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In a city celebrated both as the nation’s chess capital and one of America’s most storied sports towns, the World Chess Hall of Fame & Galleries ...

If you scrunch your eyes up just as an offensive line sets for a play, the outlines of the players look like chess pieces being moved around the board by some invisible hand. Some run in the straight ...

And so, we begin a discussion of outside-the-box competitions with the aim of categorizing each one: Real sport or just a weird activity? In our first review, we will look at a competition that ...

SportSG will calibrate its support for these sports based on their "specific needs, governance standards and contributions to ...

In the summer of 1924, Palace Square in Leningrad - today St. Petersburg - became the setting for a remarkable human chess ...

A new sport is slowly becoming a sensation, and it combines two pastimes that seem to be polar opposites: chessboxing. The game is exactly what it sounds like, as it combines chess and boxing to ...