Samy Shoker isn’t just an International Grand Chess Master; he’s also the European Middleweight Chess Boxing Champion.

This park chess game was played casually without a clock, with both players talking and joking throughout the opening. Early on, he mentioned taking it easy and treating the game lightly. As the ...

Online matches are gaining popularity, but chess club is all about the thrill of good old-fashioned board play. On a Wednesday night in July, chess boards and timers crowd tables at Ladybird Grove & ...

Chess can be improved by rearranging the positions of the starting pieces to produce a more difficult or fairer game, a physicist has found. A standard game of chess always starts with the pieces at ...

Five current and previous South Coast scholastic chess players took on the challenge of competing in the K-12 National Chess Championships held for the first time in twenty years on the West Coast. It ...

Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha, who is from India, has made history with his debut on the federation's December 2025 rating list Misha Friedman/Getty Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha, a 3-year-old boy from India, has ...

At the age of 3 years, 7 months and 20 days, a kindergartner from India has become the youngest chess player to earn an official rating from the sport’s international governing body. Sarwagya Singh ...

Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha has become the youngest player in chess history to earn an official FIDE rating at the age of three years, seven months and 20 days. Born in 2022, Sarwagya — from Sagar in the ...

When we first heard about chess boxing, we thought it was a joke. Chess boxing? Could it really be a thing? Turns out, it is, and it's just what it sounds like: alternate rounds of chess and boxing.

Chess’s international governing body said Tuesday that it filed a complaint against former World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik after he leveled unproven allegations of cheating against fellow ...

(KRON) — Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky, a Bay Area native and a former World Junior chess champion, has died unexpectedly, his family announced in a statement Friday. The statement was shared on ...