Approximately 300 elite chess players from around the world have registered for the upcoming world tournament in New York City. This six-day event will showcase elite chess players from every ...

Ju Wenjun, the newly crowned Women's World Blitz Chess Champion, believes the growing success of Chinese players on the ...

The youngest world champion showed improvement in rapid chess, though recurring blitz troubles denied him a stronger finish ...

Gukesh won four out of the nine Blitz games on Friday and was in fifth place with 13 points, with nine games to come on ...

Facing off in the penultimate round in the Blitz event, Gukesh lost in 46 moves despite playing with white pieces.

Hot on the heels of the FIDE World Championship that saw Dommaraju Gukesh crowned (classical) chess champion of the world comes FIDE's World Championship for the two faster versions of the sport: ...

Tiebreaker games at the World Chess Championship will begin this afternoon. Over the past 19 days, Magnus Carlsen of Norway, the defending champion, fought his challenger, Sergey Karjakin of Russia, ...

Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen won his sixth World Blitz Chess Championship. The title was secured after Carlsen defeated Uzbek grandmaster Nodirbek Abdusattorov in the final round of the ...