The most insightful document in the FIDE presidential race — until the votes are counted — is a prediction market with some traders on it. Let’s see if the market gets it right.

Former FIDE deputy president and seven-time Greek champion Georgios Makropoulos has died just days before he was due to stand for election again in Samarkand.

India has handed Javokhir Sindarov the Chess Olympiad torch to take home to Uzbekistan. Given what the World Championship challenger is hoping to take from India over the next three months, perhaps ...

Israel's Open and Women's teams have had their Round 5 matches at the Chess Olympiad moved away from the main venue and ...

Belarusian GM Denis Lazavik has launched an extraordinary series of attacks on fellow players, declaring it "madness" to ...

Israel's Open and Women's teams have forfeited their Round 6 matches at the Chess Olympiad after the Netherlands and Bulgaria declined requests to change the playing time for Yom Kippur.

In Samarkand, one candidate brought 30 people. Another brought five. A rumor says the two of them have a bet on the vote count. A dispatch by Ilya Merenzon, CEO of World Chess ...

The teams are in. Here are the players heading to Samarkand for the 2026 Chess Olympiad, with the USA top seeds in the Open ...

World Champion GM Gukesh D has fallen below 2700 on the live rating list for the first time in four years after being held to ...

With FIDE's Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, drawing close, here's how chess is transforming the lives of refugee ...

Turlov believes artificial intelligence could become part of the solution. With AI models now capable of tackling ...

The warning comes as World Champion Gukesh D prepares for the Chess Olympiad in Samarkand before defending his world title ...