Sandbagging' means a player deliberately losing his games, along with it his rating points, so as to play in a lower rated ...

One-time prodigy Li Haoyu lost 13 games on the trot, drawing suspicion and subsequent sanction from global governing body ...

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Young chess minds competed and collaborated at the 2025 FIDE World Schools Team Championship and Smart Moves Summit in the U.S. from August 2 to 7, 2025. The event was held at the historic Episcopal ...

The world of chess has been going through somewhat of an evolution in recent years, and it’s showing no signs of slowing down ...

Tanishka Garg, aged just 8, has become Punjab’s youngest FIDE-rated female chess player, breaking barriers and inspiring ...

Women's Chess World Cup Final Tie-Breaker Highlights, Koneru vs Divya: 19-year-old Divya Deshmukh has beaten veteran Koneru ...

India's five-year-old chess genius Aarini Lahoty recently scripted history as she became the youngest Indian female to become ...

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / August 5, 2025 / The opening day of the Smart Moves Summit 2025, sponsored by ...

Aarini Lahoty, a five-year-old girl from New Delhi, has made history by becoming the youngest Indian female to earn a FIDE chess rating.

Others said yet again, women are getting the short end of the stick. “Of course the FIDE chess ruling only truly negatively (affects) trans women,” wrote X user @HelenMary1962.

Freestyle Chess Grand Slam tour boss Jan Henric Buettner and all-time great Magnus Carlsen have called on International Chess Federation (FIDE) president Arkady Dvorkovich to resign after talks ...