Find out which openings were the favorites in the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss and which ones performed best for Black and White.

Discover which countries are represented in the FIDE Grand Swiss, a world-class tournament that will award two coveted spots in the Candidates Tournament.

Learn about the best basic learning practices that can serve you in any study, not just in chess.

What does a hippopotamus, a Soviet poem, and a chess sacrifice have in common? Mikhail Tal’s imagination leaps beyond the board—offering insight not just into chess mastery, but how humans (and AI) come to know.

Learn each of the 960 chess starting positions with our online generator. Try it out and start playing with your friends!

Few personal stories serve as a beautiful synthesis or perfect intersection of other stories, processes, or important topics. That is the case of the chess career of the great Judit Polgar.

Take advantage of the wealth of chess content available on YouTube. Here are five valuable channels we think you should check out.

In a world where chess engines and artificial intelligence’s machine learning have deeply influenced the game, the growing popularity of Chess 960 aims to be a counterbalance to mechanical calculation and memorization.

Press conferences in chess serve various functions: they instruct, inform, make players known, help visualize the various actors in the ecosystem, and are one of the most anticipated activities by the public.

Don’t miss this insightful chronology of the key moments in the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and chess.

Did you know that FIDE’s official chess rules aren’t the only ones you need to know? There’s also a set of unwritten rules that every chess player should be familiar with.

If it’s your first competition, pay attention to these common mistakes beginners often make during their first chess tournament.

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The Revelation of the Tournament: Volodar Murzin, Alexander Grischuk, and Ian Nepomniachtchi dominate the podium.

With Ding Liren's blunder in the endgame of Game 14, Gukesh becomes the youngest-ever FIDE World Champion.

The reigning World Chess Champion has gifted us a brilliant display of chess mastery.

After ten years, Dommaraju Gukesh is on the verge of bringing India a new World Chess Champion.

Excitement builds in the World Chess Championship as Ding Liren “miraculously” survives Gukesh’s offensive.

Now it was Gukesh who outmaneuvered Liren after the opening, tying the score just before the rest day.

Ding Liren surprised Gukesh with the French Defense and claimed victory in the first game of the World Chess Championship.

This Monday, November 15, at 17:00 (GMT+8), Singapore time, the World Chess Championship 2024 starts, and here we tell you the preview of the event.

In the Spanish-speaking world, there is no one who narrates a chess game with the originality that the great master José F. Cuenca Jiménez brings to the table.

On July 20th, FIDE celebrated its 100th anniversary, a date also recognized by the UN as International Chess Day since December 12, 2019.

In May 2021, a report was published based on a survey conducted by FIDE and the European Chess Union (ECU) to understand the global state of chess in schools.

To understand the full scope of contemporary chess, one must envision the chess world as an ecosystem where interactions and interdependencies among various actors are at play.

Is it possible that someone might excel more in online chess than over the board?

Try these 7 effective memorization techniques that can help you in the retention of openings, the sequence of moves or pattern recognition.

In this article, we discuss the benefits of teaching chess in schools.

We present some elements that helped Uzbekistan and India become part of the elite in the world of chess today.

Interesting tidbits about Nodirbek Abdusattorov: His training partners, recent wins, and more...