The fourth leg of the 2024-25 FIDE Women's Grand Prix is set to take place in Nicosia, Cyprus, from March 14-25, under the ...

The jeans Magnus Carlsen wore when he withdrew from the World Rapid and Blitz Championships in 2024 have been sold in an eBay ...

Boris Spassky, the Soviet chess grandmaster who lost a highly politicized showdown—the "Match of the Century"—with American ...

Spasskey was most known for losing 1972 "Match of the Century" to American Bobby Fischer, despite winning the world title in ...

Spassky had been confined to a wheelchair since suffering a debilitating stroke in 2010. Arkady Dvorkovich, president of ...

When Mr. Spassky, a Russian, played Bobby Fischer, an American, in Iceland at the height of the Cold War, the media attention ...

Grzegorz Gajewski’s observation and also D Gukesh’s earlier comments create a sense of confusion as he is participating at ...

Following the criticism, FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich addressed the controversy, indicating that the organisation will re-examine its dress code policy to ensure it aligns with the evolving ...

Freestyle Chess published an open letter from Buettner to FIDE in which Buettner claimed to share WhatsApp messages from FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich promising a resolution that FIDE then reneged ...

Freestyle Chess published an open letter from Buettner to FIDE in which Buettner claimed to share WhatsApp messages from FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich promising a resolution that FIDE then ...

Story continues below this ad This had led to a livid Carlsen withdrawing. He was later convinced to play on by FIDE chief Arkady Dvorkovich. Carlsen pointedly played the rest of the event in jeans, ...