Sergey Karjakin’s return to the FIDE top 10 rankings sparked a controversy after the Russian grandmaster was added and then removed from the March list. This also pushed reigning World Champion Gukesh ...

The FIDE Candidates Tournaments will take place from March 28 to April 16 and will determine the challengers for Gukesh’s men’s championship and Ju Wenjun’s women’s title.

Freestyle Chess, also known as Chess960 or FIDE Fischer Random Chess, is a chess variant where the pieces start in a semi-random position, which means players cannot memorise openings and must decide ...

Jan Timman, the chess grandmaster who has died aged 74, was one of the world’s finest players from the 1970s through to the ...

The FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship 2026 is all set to begin in Germany with Magnus Carlsen leading the field. Here’s ...

A Switzerland-based chess organization has ruled that transgender women cannot compete in women’s events until they have completed a gender assessment with competition officials. The ruling was ...

The 2027 edition will also see a Women's FIDE Freestyle World Championship taking place in the first weekend of 2027, ahead ...