On the night of November 8, twelve hours before facing off in the inaugural match of the World Chess Championship in London, Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana, the world’s top grandmasters, were ...

Chess is brutal. Chess is now cool. Sitting barely a meter away from each other in a London amphitheater under the intense glare of spotlights and spectators are two twentysomethings who were once ...

Vladimir Kramnik, former world chess champion and current No. 4, is playing in the first round of the London Chess Classic, the most competitive chess tournament to be played in the U.K. capital in 25 ...

A 10-year-old chess prodigy from north-west London has become the youngest person to earn the woman international master title. Bodhana Sivanandan, from Harrow, also became the youngest female player ...