FIDE Master Rawle Allicock copped the first-place prize in the Blitz New Year Challenge Chess Competition hosted by the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Officials in the global chess world have found themselves in a bind after unveiling new guidelines for transgender players. Many said the new rules from the International Chess ...

A Switzerland-based chess organization has ruled that transgender women cannot compete in women’s events until they have completed a gender assessment with competition officials. The ruling was ...

Macon Shibut of Staunton, an international FIDE Master and three-time Virginia chess champion, visited Roanoke as part of the Roanoke Valley Chess Club’s 75th anniversary celebration — it’s the ...

Who are the Nigerian chess champions and masters? UNESCO introduced the concept of commemorating this day as International Chess Day, and it has been done so since 1966. On this day, chess tournaments ...

The International Chess Federation – also known as FIDE – says players who have transitioned from male to female have “no right to participate” in women’s events until the federation conducts “further ...

The World chess champion was playing with the black pieces against Sergey Sklokin and resigned on the 80th move, down two ...

Oregon’s first woman grandmaster in chess is 16-year-old Zoey Tang, a junior at Westview High School in Beaverton. “Woman grandmaster” is the highest chess title restricted to women that is awarded by ...