It should have been simple for Magnus Carlsen, or at least as simple as a top-tier chess game can be. When the world chess champion sat down across from 19-year-old American Hans Niemann at the ...

Bodhana Sivanandan won the 2025 British Chess Championships in Liverpool. A 10-year-old girl who started playing chess five years ago has made history by defeating a grandmaster, according to the ...

Chess prodigy Beth Harmon, played by actress Anya Taylor-Joy, reads a chess pamphlet in Netflix's miniseries "The Queen Gambit." Netflix Netflix's "The Queen's Gambit" has inspired a surge of interest ...