World Chess, a media and online gaming company that has previously held the rights to broadcast the World Chess Championships, has announced a "hybrid IPO" for 2020 that will see it issue digital ...

Magnus Carlsen is a No. 1 player in both reality and fantasy. The world chess champion from Norway is showing he has a flair for another game by moving to the top of the standings in Fantasy Premier ...

The World Chess Federation has extended the deadline for bids to organise its 2019-2020 Women's Grand Prix events ©FIDE FIDE said in a statement it had received a number of requests from organisers ...

Ben Chen is a student by day and a national master by knight. The 15-year-old sophomore spends his mornings and afternoons earning high marks at Chiles High School. Once his final class is dismissed, ...

In May 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer defeated the reigning world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, in an official match under tournament conditions. Fast forward to 2011, IBM extended development ...

CITY OF NEWBURGH — Matthew Tether unrolled a world champion-standard chess mat and plopped it on the sidewalk near the front steps of Baptist Temple Church. "This is where it all began," he said. The ...