Chess is booming. A heady cocktail of Queen’s Gambit mania, pandemic boredom, and Twitch streaming has given the ancient board game more visibility than it’s had in a long, long time. It’s been half a ...

He began threatening her when she declined further contact. Paul Keevil, a 56-year-old UK chess master, was jailed for 28 months for stalking a woman in her 20s Keevil harassed the victim after she ...

Thank you for signing up! Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to Milton Keynes Citizen, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you. Nikesh Acharya, aged 6, from Jubilee ...

Chess.com reaches a new membership milestone as it nears its 20th birthday. Chess.com, the online chess platform that was founded in 2005 and launched in 2007, has surpassed 200 million members. Of ...

The FIDE Women's Chess World Cup is among the most grueling of tournaments. It goes on for nearly a month and features more than 100 players, prodigies to world champions, across age and nationalities ...

Nikesh Acharya, aged 6, from Jubilee Wood Primary School in Milton Keynes, took home a victory at the grand finale of the nation’s largest junior chess competition - the Delancey UK Chess Challenge.