The only problem: the match won’t feature the game’s best player ... To Carlsen, the five-time world champion from Norway and the highest rated player chess has ever known, these games ...

Denim, FIDE said, is “explicitly prohibited under longstanding regulations for this event” and promptly fined Carlsen, one of the greatest chess players of all time, $200 for his infraction.

Eighteen months after leaked recordings revealed widespread match-fixing in the board game xiangqi, also known as Chinese chess, China has imposed lifetime bans ... and nearly every master I can name ...

For the first time ever ... in the form of National Chess Federations. Chess is nowadays a truly global sport, with dozens of millions of players in all the continents, and more than 60 million ...