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›
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›
World Chess, the commercial arm of the game's governing body Fide, then turned its attention to London... READ MORE›
The World Anti-Doping Agency WADA has refused to recognise Russia's anti-doping agency RUSADA as compliant with the international code... READ MORE›
The World Anti-Doping Agency maintained its suspension of Russia on Thursday, raising the spectre of a possible ban from February's Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang... READ MORE›
The World Anti-Doping Agency WADA headquarters will stay in Montreal until 2031, according to a decision from the body's executive committee... 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›
Modafinil a prescription-only medication for narcolepsy that the NHS's website describes as a central nervous system stimulant that prevents excessive sleepiness during daytime hours ... READ MORE›
Kasparov unsuccessfully tried to bring legal action in Russia in 2007 before taking his case to Strasbourg... 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›
Not at all, says chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov... 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›
The IOC strongly condemns such methods which clearly aim at tarnishing the reputation of clean athletes, the organization said... READ MORE›
Biel, 21, fled fighting in South Sudan in 2005, and grew up on his own in a refugee camp... READ MORE›
Meanwhile, Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva said she would challenge the IAAF's decision in court, claiming it was a human rights violation ... 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›
Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov tells FRANCE 24 he sees Russian President Vladimir Putin as a dangerous dictator ... 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›
But that fig leaf was largely absent in Rio... READ MORE›
Unfortunately, the sport and theater combination is very appropriate when we touch upon the topic of the World Anti-Doping Agency WADA ... READ MORE›
The World Anti-Doping Agency would appear to have fallen down on its duty, which is to catch cheating athletes catch athletes who take dope... READ MORE›
The Sunday Times and ARD said they were given access to the doping results of over 12,000 tests from more than 5,000 athletes taken between 2001 and 2012... 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›
WADA doping allegations against Russia are groundless Russian anti-doping chief... READ MORE›
The second McLaren report's revelations of a shocking doping conspiracy involving Russian athletes has sparked widespread condemnation by Australian Olympic administrators and athletes... 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›
Dr Budgett was responding to a call by Canadian health Professor Amir Attaran for the Games to be postponed or moved... READ MORE›
He said there appeared to be little room for political activists in Russia to maneuver, let alone to develop a political strategy... READ MORE›
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