Magnus Carlsen suffers a shock defeat to chess influencer Witty Alien after a costly blunder. Find out how the Bulgarian ...

Hikaru Nakamura becomes the first player to reach a 3500 blitz rating on Chess.com, opening a 100-point gap over Magnus ...

World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen played his first match at the World Blitz Championship after initially quitting the chess tournament due to a dress code dispute with organizers. On Friday, Carlsen walked ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hikaru Nakamura, left, has rubbished allegations levelled against him by Russian grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik (Getty) Hikaru ...

Vandan Alankar Sawai's father was in for an unexpected surprise when he signed into Chess.com last Tuesday evening and discovered that his son had pulled off a stunning victory over chess legend ...

For the first time in World Blitz Championship history, the open section has two champions after Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi agreed to a draw after tiebreakers in the final with the score at ...

Top Bulgarian chess player Veselin Topalov won both blitz games to secure victory in the "Clutch Chess: The Legends" Chess960 match against Garry Kasparov. The contest, held in the USA, spanned thr ...

“I asked him to play, and he did not even inform his coach,” said Dr Madhuri Sawai, recalling how her 15-year-old son, Vandan Alankar Sawai, almost casually entered an online blitz tournament and ...

The Chess England event was a rare test of UK skills against strong foreign opposition ...