Chess

World

At 5, She Picked Up Chess as a Pandemic Hobby. At 9, She’s a Prodigy.

Bodhana Sivanandan, a fourth-grader, has become one of England’s best players just a few years after discovering chess during pandemic…

World

A Nigerian Chess Master in Times Square

Tunde Onakoya is trying to break a record for the longest chess marathon. And he’s playing his games in the…

News

Lisa Lane, Chess Champion Whose Reign Was Meteoric, Dies at 86

She was the first chess player to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated. But people focused more on her…

Sports

Chess’s Governing Body Delays Report on Cheating Scandal

Did Hans Niemann secretly use a supercomputer to beat the world champion Magnus Carlsen? The International Chess Federation won’t say…

Finance

He’s the Bad Boy of Chess. But Did He Cheat?

The day before he beat the greatest chess player in the world, Hans Niemann was a curly-haired 19-year-old American known…

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