Intelligence is attractive, and so are these 11 chess grandmasters and players, whose moves have us locked in checkmate.

top-three finishers at the Chess World Cup 2025, winner of the 2025 FIDE Circuit and the highest rating averaged player (from August 2025 to January 2026). The next world championship in the ...

D Gukesh has been hogging the spotlight at the ongoing Tata Steel Masters chess tournament. The reigning world champion has ...

Mapúa University, the country's premier engineering and technological institution, has culminated its centennial year celebrations with academic and cultural events highlighting the institute's ...

Magnus Carlsen criticised FIDE after co-founding Freestyle Chess Players Club with Jan Henric Beuttner, which led to a ...

Magnus Carlsen criticised FIDE after co-founding Freestyle Chess Players Club with Jan Henric Beuttner, which led to a dispute over the term "World Championship". Carlsen supports Beuttner's ...

Continuing his fine form in the Tata Steel Masters, Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa played out a solid draw with world champion D Gukesh in the eighth round. (More Sports News) Playing the white side ...

In the first big chess tournament of 2025, the best players in the world are all closely bunched together near the top of the standings of the Tata Steel Chess Masters in Wijk Aan Zee, Netherlands.