Hikaru Nakamura plays chess like he talks — at a hundred miles an hour. The 35-year-old grandmaster has been the top ranked US player for over a decade and livestreams rapid fire games of online blitz ...

Magnus Carlsen, widely regarded as the greatest chess player of all time, won the World Blitz Championship in December 2025 in Doha, Qatar. It was his ninth world blitz title and the twentieth world ...

The president of the CFR Andrey Filatov is proud that it was chess players that earned Russia’s first awards at international competitions in 2025 NEW YORK, January 1. /TASS/ Russian chess player Yan ...

Who is Jacorey Bynum? Teen chess player shocks Magnus Carlsen with bold queen sacrifice checkmate in viral blitz game (Image via Getty) Magnus Carlsen did not lose to a grandmaster this time. Instead, ...

Dec 29 (Reuters) - Chess great Magnus Carlsen will return to the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in New York after initially quitting following governing body FIDE's decision to bar him from ...

The centuries-old pastime of chess has experienced a makeover that the younger generation seems to relish. They prefer faster time controls which traditional chess lacks. The younger love the ...

The Detroit City Chess Club (DCCC) traveled to Toronto for the inaugural Great Lakes International Youth Chess Cup. The tournament featured both classical and blitz chess play, offering opportunities ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hikaru Nakamura, left, has rubbished allegations levelled against him by Russian grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik (Getty) Hikaru ...