Following a “lot of work,” which involved fellow NFL players Amari Cooper and also Awuzie, Chess.com hosted its first tournament with the league in 2022, Rensch explains.

For the Detroit City Chess Club, a history-making summer tournament in Toronto began with a December "cold call" to a ...

Early this month, the International Chess Federation, known as FIDE, issued a ban on transgender women competing in international women’s chess competitions. The ban, which took effect on Aug. 22, ...

Price: $40 at the time of publication Who this is for: If you’re getting into chess and want to play at tournaments, with local clubs, or in other organized play, an entry-level competition set ...

Sep. 9—Three state chess champions hailing from Kalispell represented Montana at the national level competing in U.S. Chess Federation-sponsored tournaments in Norfolk, Virginia in July. David ...

Girls play in a 2021 chess competition in Mazar-e-Sharif, capital of the northern Balkh province, Afghanistan. Girls and women had been encouraged to learn the game — until the Taliban took ...

Magnus Carlsen, the No. 1 ranked chess player, quit the World Rapid Chess Championship in New York on Friday after refusing to change out of jeans to conform to a strict dress code.

World chess champion Magnus Carlsen left the World Rapid and Blitz Championships on Friday, Dec. 27 after he refused to change out of his jeans in accordance with the International Chess ...

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A Romanian chess grandmaster was expelled from a national-level competition after being accused of using a mobile device during play, organizers announced on Monday. Kirill Shevchenko, currently ...

The three youths took a break between rounds at a Kalispell chess tournament on Aug. 31 to talk about competing and learning how to play the centuries-old game. ...

World Chess champion Magnus Carlsen will no longer compete in the World Rapid or Blitz Chess Championships after violating the International Chess Federation’s dress code policy. Carlsen, who ...