New FIDE President Timur Turlov has backed keeping the Chess Federation of Russia suspended—on the same weekend a former ...

Timur Turlov was elected FIDE President today in Samarkand, winning the runoff 110–85 over Wadim Rosenstein after taking 96 ...

Bodhana Sivanandan arrived at the Chess Olympiad aged 11 and was asked to lead England from board one. She leaves Samarkand ...

Former FIDE deputy president and seven-time Greek champion Georgios Makropoulos has died just days before he was due to stand for election again in Samarkand.

Belarusian GM Denis Lazavik has launched an extraordinary series of attacks on fellow players, declaring it "madness" to ...

World Champion GM Gukesh D has fallen below 2700 on the live rating list for the first time in four years after being held to ...

Israel's Open and Women's teams have had their Round 5 matches at the Chess Olympiad moved away from the main venue and ...

Delegates wake up, walk into a hall, mark a ballot, and there will be no more speeches — just the customary 15-minute slot before the elections. Tonight is the only night left to turn anyone, and the ...

Israel's Open and Women's teams have forfeited their Round 6 matches at the Chess Olympiad after the Netherlands and Bulgaria declined requests to change the playing time for Yom Kippur.

The most insightful document in the FIDE presidential race — until the votes are counted — is a prediction market with some traders on it. Let’s see if the market gets it right.

Not many people in the hotel where the FIDE delegates stay are lawyers. But every single one of them is.

In Samarkand, one candidate brought 30 people. Another brought five. A rumor says the two of them have a bet on the vote count. A dispatch by Ilya Merenzon, CEO of World Chess ...