Jan Timman, the chess grandmaster who has died aged 74, was one of the world’s finest players from the 1970s through to the 1990s; in an era of Soviet dominance he was known as “the Best of the West”.

The erstwhile chess world champion broke earnings records for the game ...

Hans Niemann declares he will ​become a “stone cold killer” and the world’s best player in a Netflix documentary released on ...

In the Netflix film, Magnus Carlsen does not say sorry for accusing Hans Niemann of cheating without any evidence ...

Javokhir Sindarov, a 20-year-old chess grandmaster from Uzbekistan, has taken the chess world by storm over the past few weeks with a historic performance at the Candidates Tournament in Cyprus.

A three-time National Chess Champion breaks down what playing chess against LLMs can teach us.

A product of the Soviet chess system and a Grandmaster since 1998, Petr Kiriakov represents a generation shaped by tradition, ...