The sheer number of accounts (often boosted by blue checks) taking the post seriously is staggering. The furious replies ...

The Chess.com Rename the Bishop Controversy refers to backlash over a joke posted by the chess.com X / Twitter account in mid ...

The chess world erupted over a cheeky joke from Chess.com asking players for “new name ideas” for one of the game’s pieces.

The self-destruction of the Austrian army in 1788 caused Austria to lose the Battle of Karansebes to the Turks. Karansebes is in modern day Romania. Austrian soldiers mistook each other for the enemy, ...

He's still in pre-school and has been playing the game for just over a year. But he's already done enough to become the youngest Fide-rated player in the world., when he beat two rated players in ...