Russian-born chess grandmaster and émigré Gennadi “Genna” Sosonko still remembers where he was 40 years ago today, when he heard that the 1984-85 World Championship match in Moscow between Garry ...

Chess grandmaster and former world champion Anatoly Karpov, who has waged a highly public campaign in defense of his nomination as Russia's candidate for the presidency of the World Chess Federation, ...

The international chess world descended into chaos and bitter accusations of cheating today with the controversial re-election of the president of the World Chess Federation, who defeated the former ...

One of the fiercest and most politically charged rivalries in world chess resumed today when former world champions Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov arrived in the Spanish city of Valencia for a ...

Former chess world champions Anatoly Karpov, left, and Garry Kasparov, right, play an exhibition rematch in Valencia, Spain on Tuesday. ((Alberto Saiz/Associated Press)) Garry Kasparov beat Anatoly ...

Mr. Karpov has been a loyal defender of Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, and the invasion of Ukraine. But he has also expressed sympathy for the war’s civilian victims on both sides. By Victor ...