Chess Mates,' from the Netflix Untold series, digs a little deeper into the chess cheating scandal that created headlines around the world ...

Two of the world's top chess players faced off in a match that ended with a fist slam of defeat. At the 2025 Norway Chess tournament on June 1, reigning World Chess Champion Gukesh Dommaraju beat the ...

The ongoing feud between Carlsen and Niemann dates back to 2022, when the American rising star defeated the World #1 at the Sinquefield Cup in St Louis, thus ending his 53-game unbeaten streak.

A new Netflix documentary on the 2022 cheating scandal points to how in the Carlsen vs Niemann case, Chess.com was the chief character witness against the accused, the partial executioner, the lead ...

STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — Few chess players enjoy Magnus Carlsen's celebrity status. A grand master at 13, refusing to play an American dogged by allegations of cheating, and venturing into the world ...

At 24, Kaja Snare didn’t imagine she had a future in chess; she barely played the game. But in 2014, when she was a rookie sports reporter for TV2, Norway’s second-largest broadcast network, her ...

Magnus Carlsen is betting that his Freestyle Chess tournament can lure new fans to the game, while engaging the hardcore enthusiasts. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor Earlier this month, a handful of the ...

Chess titan Magnus Carlsen slammed his fist on the table in a moment of blind fury after losing to 19-year-old world champion D. Gukesh in a high-stakes sixth-round encounter at Norway Chess 2025 on ...

IT’S long been seen as the bastion of geeks and brainiacs but the world of chess has had its fair share of shocking scandals.