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Vaishali Rameshbabu surprised the chess world by winning the 2026 FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament in Cyprus. As an ...

With Divya Deshmukh holding Bibisara Assaubayeva to a draw, R Vaishali clinches a historic triumph, defeating Russia’s ...

Sindarov drops points, held to draw by Esipenko. Sindarov had previously won against the Russian, but this time the game started fast and ...

A Switzerland-based chess organization has ruled that transgender women cannot compete in women’s events until they have completed a gender assessment with competition officials. The ruling was ...

Sept 22 (Reuters) - Chess governing body FIDE's general assembly on Sunday upheld a ban on Russian and Belarusian players imposed after Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022, while backing a move to ...

The International Chess Federation (FIDE) reprimanded world champion Magnus Carlsen for resigning from an online chess match against fellow grandmaster Hans Niemann after just one move but added that ...

The new trophy of the FIDE World Chess Cup being held here was on Friday christened as the Viswanathan Anand trophy, in honour of the five-time world champion Indian legend. (Image credit: FIDE) NEW ...

The teenager crushed Veselin Topalov 5-1 to become the youngest ever 2700-rated grandmaster, after which his coach said his future target was 2900 ...

Javokhir Sindarov has been the story of the tournament. He defeated World No. 3 Fabiano Caruana with 42 minutes on his clock ...

A chess grandmaster was fired from his job as a commentator for the International Chess Federation, or FIDE, for making sexist comments during the Women’s Grand Prix in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Tuesday.