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›
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›
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›
Antwerp now has 'text lanes' for pedestrians who are glued to their mobile phones... 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›
When the police turned up, they took the man and woman into an office in the hotel... READ MORE›
The incident in Zhangjiajie city, in the central province of Hunan, caused a residential building to collapse and three of the injured were taken to hospital, Xinhua said... 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›
Paris attacks Mobile phone 'saved man's life' outside Stade de France... 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›
Lisa Bridgett, of Pwllheli, had been using the phone after the Ariana Grande concert on Monday when the explosion caused a steel nut to hit her... 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›
There are more than 2.5 million mobile phone subscribers in North Korea, a country of 24 million people... 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›
The video shows the journalist speaking to the camera when a man approaches the vehicle from the driver's side and demands money and the mobile phone... 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›
Unnoticed during the rush hour crush on Monday evening he then stands up and appears to look into his mobile phone or take a photograph... READ MORE›
This is to give people an opportunity to modify their behaviour and put away that mobile phone... READ MORE›
They are the 21st century faux pas which irritate us all but have become a fact of life in the age of the smartphone... 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›
Augsburg, in Bavaria, has installed traffic lights in the ground at pedestrian crossings, hoping mobile phone zombies... READ MORE›
A Canadian man has found a simple way to make your mobile phone waterproof... READ MORE›
Customers can choose from a selection of short, precise delivery slots, meaning goods arrive at a time that suits them... READ MORE›
A six-year-old New Zealand boy with a new mobile phone has been receiving text messages intended for a prostitute... 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›
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