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A Peruvian school team went undefeated all week at the FIDE World Schools Team Championship in Costa Rica — and won not by having the best player on the board, but by having the most balanced team in the room.
The second-ever Esports World Cup Chess Finals crowns its champion today in Paris, with defending champion Magnus Carlsen among the stars fighting for a $1.5 million prize pool. Here's what got us here — and how to watch.
At the 2026 Esports World Cup in Paris, 19-year-old Denis Lazavik pulled off the tournament's biggest shock so far — eliminating former world title challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi and setting up a stacked day of playoffs featuring Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nak
Chess is one of the only games in the world where a child can play, laugh, and become friends with another kid without sharing a single word of language. Here's what research and real young players are showing us about chess as a social superpower for kid
In a Sinquefield Cup round where almost every game ended in a decisive result, Levon Aronian pulled off the biggest turnaround of the day — clawing back a lost position to beat Vincent Keymer, then explaining afterward exactly why nothing on a chessboard
At the first-ever FIDE World University Team Championship, six games in the final ended in quiet draws — so the entire trophy for a Russian mining university came down to just one player, who won every single game that mattered.
At the biggest British Chess Championship ever held, 17-year-old Shreyas Royal won the men's title while 11-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan became the youngest women's champion in the event's 122-year history — and she did it with a triple crown to match.
A 14-year-old Indian player spent one summer touring European tournaments — and came home having jumped 469 rating points, earned her first IM norm, and beaten players hundreds of points above her. Here's how it happened.
A 16-year-old American grandmaster just beat three former and reigning Women's World Champions back-to-back to win the 2026 Women's Speed Chess Championship — and she's already planning to celebrate with ice cream.