Israel's Open and Women's teams have forfeited their Round 6 matches at the Chess Olympiad after the Netherlands and Bulgaria declined requests to change the playing time for Yom Kippur.

India has handed Javokhir Sindarov the Chess Olympiad torch to take home to Uzbekistan. Given what the World Championship challenger is hoping to take from India over the next three months, perhaps ...

Israel's Open and Women's teams have had their Round 5 matches at the Chess Olympiad moved away from the main venue and ...

Former FIDE deputy president and seven-time Greek champion Georgios Makropoulos has died just days before he was due to stand for election again in Samarkand.

Belarusian GM Denis Lazavik has launched an extraordinary series of attacks on fellow players, declaring it "madness" to ...

The teams are in. Here are the players heading to Samarkand for the 2026 Chess Olympiad, with the USA top seeds in the Open ...

World Champion Gukesh D has bounced back from briefly falling below 2700 with two straight wins at the Chess Olympiad in Samarkand.

World Champion GM Gukesh D has fallen below 2700 on the live rating list for the first time in four years after being held to ...

Turlov believes artificial intelligence could become part of the solution. With AI models now capable of tackling ...

With FIDE's Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, drawing close, here's how chess is transforming the lives of refugee ...

The warning comes as World Champion Gukesh D prepares for the Chess Olympiad in Samarkand before defending his world title ...

Here is how you elect the president of FIDE. You gather the delegates of nearly 200 national federations in one city, you give them each a ballot, and you count. Simple. The city this year is ...