The first woman GM, born and raised in Hungary, was instrumental in getting the maverick genius to live in Budapest for eight ...

Maghsoodloo finished in second place by Buchholz tiebreaks, ahead of six other players also on seven points. Since Carlsen ...

Magnus Carlsen’s nine-game winning streak at the Grenke Chess Freestyle Open 2025 is being compared to the great Bobby ...

At a time before his country became a chess powerhouse, he defeated four world champions, including Bobby Fischer and another ...

The following conversation between Bobby Fischer and radio host Pablo Mercado was broadcast September 11, 2001 on the Philippine radio station Bombo Radyo. In 1972, Fischer became the first American… ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow.

5.0 and above Searching for Fischer in the tennis world has been almost as difficult as searching for Bobby Fischer, the chess master who mysteriously vanished at the top of his game. The Austrian ...

Josh Waitzkin is just a typical American boy interested in baseball when one day he challenges his father at chess and wins. Showing unusual precocity at the outdoor matches at Washington Square ...

Courtesy of wikimedia commons There’s a new sort of chess. It’s flashy, it’s exciting. It’s called Freestyle Chess, or ...