On a cold November afternoon in 1844, players in Washington opened a chess game in the old, familiar way, with a pawn pushed ...

Javokhir Sindarov defeats Praggnanandhaa to lead Candidates by two points, Vaishali tops women's Candidates as title race ...

The Chamber of Strategy is potentially the simplest of the BG3 Wyrmway puzzles – how hard can it be to checkmate the enemy ...

Chess is a game of the master stroke, a step-by-step war that only lets the most mindful of them all emerge victorious. In ...

The opening ceremony for the 2026 Candidates took place on Saturday, March 28. X/FIDE_Chess The FIDE Candidates 2026 kicks off from Sunday, March 29 onwards, marking the start of one of the most ...

The FIDE Candidates 2026 will tee off on Sunday in Cyprus, with the tournament set to determine the challengers for the world chess titles. There are eight players each in both the open and women’s ...

The chess program Stockfish can crush Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, who is largely considered the greatest player in history. However, it cannot replace him. These super-strong platforms ...

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JOHN McINALLY assesses what we’ve learned from the disastrous US war so far THE origins of chess are contested, but few dispute that while the game began in India, it was the Sassanian Persian empire ...

Analysts, policymakers and commentators now routinely describe Iran’s actions as deliberate, layered and patient—defined not by immediate gains, but by positional advantage accumulated over time The ...

The origins of chess are contested, but few dispute that while the game began in India, it was the Sassanian Persian Empire that refined it into a recognizable strategic system. It was Persia that ...