— Hikaru Nakamura has almost stopped playing classic tournaments, while he is the ranking favorite.

Oleksii Nakonechnyi, a 10-year-old chess player from Truskavets, won the U10 World Cadet Rapid Chess Championship in Albania, defeating Russian champion Roman Shogdzhiev, who participated in the ...

YEKATERINBURG, April 26. /TASS/. Russian Grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi won on Monday the FIDE (the World Chess Federation) Chess Candidates Tournament with a round to spare of the international ...

MOSCOW, Russia — A chess-playing robot grabbed the finger of its 7-year-old opponent and broke it during last week's Moscow Chess Open tournament, Russian media reported Monday. “The robot broke the ...

A chess robot playing three games at once broke a 7-year-old boy’s finger in a tournament that ended Thursday. According to Baza, the robot “squeezed” the kid’s finger, but it’s possible that’s a ...