Lior Aizenberg, spokesman of the Israeli Chess Federation, said the decision to prevent the Israelis from attending was indeed political... READ MORE›
In November, Chess Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura hit out against FIDE for awarding Saudi Arabia the tournament... READ MORE›
Meanwhile, players from Qatar and Iran, which have strained ties with Saudi Arabia, have been granted visas to participate in the tournament... READ MORE›
Saudi Arabia's Center for International Communication said in a statement that more than 180 players would participate but did not immediately respond to a request for comment... READ MORE›
At an international chess tournament in Saudi Arabia, women are not forced to cover their heads, but Israelis are excluded... READ MORE›
Lior Aizenberg, a spokesman for the Israel Chess Federation, said efforts were still being made by various parties to allow Israeli players to take part... READ MORE›
Yet for the next World Chess Championship the organisers may have gone a bit too far in trying to set pulses racing... READ MORE›
World Chess, the commercial arm of the game's governing body Fide, then turned its attention to London... READ MORE›
Nazi Paikidze says Iran's hijab law is oppressive. But one of the country's top chess players says a boycott will only hurt women's sports in Iran... READ MORE›
Sara Khadem I was in the second grade when my friend talked about playing chess... READ MORE›
Gibraltar Chess is an open event meaning that, unlike women-only tournaments, entry is open to players of both sexes... READ MORE›
Russian chess champion Yuri Yeliseyev, 20, has died after apparently plunging from a balcony on the 12th floor of a Moscow apartment block... READ MORE›
The girl was participating in last month's National Scholastic Chess Championship in Putrajaya, just south of Kuala Lumpur... READ MORE›
Drug-testing exists to some extent in chess, but only at events such as the world championship... READ MORE›
AlphaGo, the AI created by Google subsidiary DeepMind, reported that Ke's first 50 moves were played perfectly, according to DeepMind chief executive Demis Hassabis... READ MORE›
Bobby Fischer captured the world's imagination when he took the world chess championship from Boris Spassky in their epic 1972 encounter... READ MORE›
Mr Coqueraut said Mr Ricciardi constantly drank from a glass of water and wiped his face with a handkerchief to conceal the pendant around his neck... READ MORE›
KATWE, Uganda -- Seventeen-year-old Richard Buyinza stared at the chessboard in front of him, plotting what he hoped would be his killer move... READ MORE›
Kovalyov, 25, had turned up wearing the same stripey shorts he wore in the previous round when he knocked out India's former world champion Vishy Anand... READ MORE›
All eyes however are on China's 16-year-old prodigy, Yi Wei, who is currently taking the chess world by storm... READ MORE›
Chess has roots in the Middle East older perhaps than even Islam... READ MORE›
Mr Ilyumzhinov has previously defeated two legends of the game in Fide elections, AnatolyA Karpov in 2010 and the dissident human rights campaigner Garry Kasparov in 2014... READ MORE›
Googles software engineers taught computer to beat almost any human at an ancient Chinese game... READ MORE›
After giving an interview in which he criticized the Soviet authorities, he shortly received word from friends in the Soviet Union that he was in trouble... READ MORE›
An Italian chess player has been removed from one of Italy's most prestigious tournaments after allegedly using Morse code and a hidden camera to cheat... READ MORE›
Eccentric russian kirsan ilyumzhinov fiercely denies allegations claiming his only link to the war-torn country was delivering chess sets... READ MORE›
Never mind the Sicilian defense -- chess champ Magnus Carlsen needs a defense against Russian hackers... READ MORE›
NEW YORK -- On a dreary, rainy Manhattan night, a huge, happy roar arose in a crowd of chess fans from around the world... READ MORE›
Magnus Carlsen is tops in an endurance sport that does not require him to move from his chair... READ MORE›
Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen was once again crowned world chess champion for the third straight year Wednesday... READ MORE›
Bill de Blasio, Mayor of New York, said I and all New Yorkers welcome the World Chess Championship back to New York City... READ MORE›
Entry into the UK Chess Challenge costs schools ?40 for 30 pupils and ?15 for every ?15 thereafter... READ MORE›
But for some, unchecked AI development evokes apocalyptic images in which hostile machines enslave humanity... READ MORE›
Though the winner's purse in St Louis is a not-too-shabby 150,000, the grandmaster said he would donate any winnings to promote chess in Africa... READ MORE›
AFP BILL GREENBLATT Chess legend Garry Kasparov came out of retirement on Monday to play in St Louis... READ MORE›
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