The fourth season of the Global Chess League (GCL), a joint initiative of Tech Mahindra and FIDE, will be held in India, ...

A Switzerland-based chess organization has ruled that transgender women cannot compete in women’s events until they have completed a gender assessment with competition officials. The ruling was ...

Learn how 9-year-old Anvi Hinge became the world’s youngest Woman Candidate Master. Explore her FIDE rankings, key tournament ...

Sept 22 (Reuters) - Chess governing body FIDE's general assembly on Sunday upheld a ban on Russian and Belarusian players imposed after Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022, while backing a move to ...

The Global Chess League (GCL) will stay home, for another season. The fourth edition of the league, a joint venture of Tech ...

Javokhir Sindarov, meanwhile, misses out on a fifth consecutive victory at the 2026 Fide Candidates as Dutch GM Anish Giri ...

The new trophy of the FIDE Chess World Cup, being held in Panjim, was on Friday (October 31, 2025) christened as the Viswanathan Anand trophy, in honour of the five-time world champion Indian legend.

A chess grandmaster was fired from his job as a commentator for the International Chess Federation, or FIDE, for making sexist comments during the Women’s Grand Prix in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Tuesday.

The Global Chess League (GCL), a joint initiative of Tech Mahindra and FIDE, today announced that Season 4 will be hosted in ...