ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Twenty eight of America’s best chess players gathered in Saint Louis, America’s Chess Capital, at the Saint Louis Chess Club for the 2022 U.S. & U.S. Women’s Chess ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Texas Tech student and Grandmaster Aleksey Sorokin is this year’s chess U. S. Open Champion. The senior outlasted more than 400 players to bring the top prize home to Lubbock.

In an unpredictable twist, 2022 was quite the year for niche sports. But that's not necessarily a good thing. Specifically, it was quite a year for lesser known sports because of controversies. From ...

ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--This month, 13 of the world’s best chess grandmasters participated in the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz and Sinquefield Cup at the Saint Louis Chess Club. The tournaments and ...

The World Chess Champion has spoken — once again. Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, 31, has provided more context on why he withdrew from a highly anticipated virtual match against American ...

Norwegian world chess champion Magnus Carlsen abruptly withdrew from a game against American Hans Niemann, reigniting an ongoing cheating controversy in the sport. After playing just one move in a ...

Last September, the Internet was abuzz for weeks about a chess cheating controversy that erupted during the third round of the Sinquefield Cup. The reigning chess world champion, Magnus Carlsen, lost ...

A cheating scandal rocking the chess world over the past month has sparked debate about the role of artificial intelligence in high-level competition. Last month, five-time world chess champion Magnus ...

Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann, who is at the center of a cheating scandal, has now filed a $100 million lawsuit against world champion Magnus Carlsen and others for defamation. One of the defendants ...

U.S. grandmaster Hans Niemann waits his turn to move during a second-round chess game against Jeffery Xiong in St. Louis on October 6, 2022. (Photo by TIM VIZER/AFP via Getty Images) Chess.com, along ...

Playing the black pieces in classical time format, Niemann beat Carlsen in 57 moves. Imagine a .500 NBA team beating Michael Jordan’s ‘95-’96 Bulls in Chicago by 20 points. Niemann’s win broke Carlsen ...