Javokhir Sindarov is destroying the competition for a spot in the world championship match. Even Magnus Carlsen is stunned.

The rivalry between two chess players in Russia took a bizarre turn when one of them was accused of poisoning a game board with liquid mercury, making her opponent sick. The suspect, chess player ...

The documentary highlights how Niemann has worked to rebuild his reputation, while also showing the intense pressure and ...

Chess Mates,' from the Netflix Untold series, digs a little deeper into the chess cheating scandal that created headlines around the world ...

A Russian chess player is under investigation for allegedly attempting to poison another player ahead of a match last week. Security video shows the chess player Amina Abakarova smearing what is ...

Russia is no stranger to unique poisonings. State agents have been known to use everything from polonium-laced tea to the deadly nerve agent "novichok" when making assassination attempts against both ...

For more than a decade, the Sinquefield Cup has been a key stop on the Grand Chess Tour, bringing together some of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earlier this month, a handful of the world’s greatest chess players gathered in an event space located in the lush greenery of ...

Elite chess players are abandoning engine-approved strategies in favor of wild, hard-to-predict moves designed to break ...