Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hikaru Nakamura, left, has rubbished allegations levelled against him by Russian grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik (Getty) Hikaru ...

World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen played his first match at the World Blitz Championship after initially quitting the chess tournament due to a dress code dispute with organizers. On Friday, Carlsen walked ...

The chess world is never short on scandals, and the latest one is incredibly on brand. Top-ranked former world champion Magnus Carlsen recently showed up to a tournament in jeans, refused to change, ...

Wall Street Gambit on December 29 fuses chess and finance with speakers and opportunity to play chess legends "I personally believe that chess and finance are very close to each other, which is why we ...

On a cold November afternoon in 1844, players in Washington opened a chess game in the old, familiar way, with a pawn pushed ...

Hikaru Nakamura plays chess like he talks — at a hundred miles an hour. The 35-year-old grandmaster has been the top ranked US player for over a decade and livestreams rapid fire games of online blitz ...