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Four-time Women's World Champion Hou Yifan, who mostly traded the chessboard for a university office years ago, has fought her way back into the Women's Speed Chess Championship final — where a 16-year-old giant-killer is waiting for her.
The freshly published August 2026 FIDE rating list tells a wild story: World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju endured his roughest tournament yet, dropping points for the second month running and slipping behind a 15-year-old on the junior list — while Alireza F
A 16-year-old International Master just knocked the reigning Women's World Champion out of an elite online tournament — and then won 11 of her next 12 games to reach the final. Here's the story of Alice Lee's giant-killing run.
At a small tournament in France, 11-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan broke a record held for 38 years by chess legend Judit Polgar — and picked up her first International Master norm in the same week.
Every move in chess is a small decision with a real consequence — and that's exactly why the game is so good for kids aged 6 to 13. Here's what a major university study and a record-breaking 10-year-old can teach us about raising braver, smarter thinkers.
FIDE has announced that Geneva will host the 2026 World Chess Championship between champion Gukesh Dommaraju and challenger Javokhir Sindarov — the youngest title match in chess history, returning the crown fight to Switzerland for the first time in 22 ye
Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, and Levon Aronian are facing off against Uzbekistan's next generation — including the player who will soon challenge for the World Championship — in a first-of-its-kind rapid and blitz match on Miami Beach.
At the 2026 German Championship, three players ranked below the country's strongest grandmasters swept the podium — proving that on the right week, youth and nerve can outweigh rating points.
Vietnamese GM Tuan Minh Le pulled off one of the wildest comebacks in Bullet Brawl history on Saturday, erasing a 20-point deficit to Hikaru Nakamura in the tournament's final quarter-hour — and Nakamura had jokingly predicted his own downfall just minute