Russian-born chess grandmaster and émigré Gennadi “Genna” Sosonko still remembers where he was 40 years ago today, when he heard that the 1984-85 World Championship match in Moscow between Garry ...

Chess grandmaster and former world champion Anatoly Karpov, who has waged a highly public campaign in defense of his nomination as Russia's candidate for the presidency of the World Chess Federation, ...

Russian lawmaker Anatoly Karpov received serious head injuries outside the State Duma, per multiple reports. In April, Karpov said he hoped the Ukraine-Russia war would end soon. A string of Russian ...

Jan Timman, the chess grandmaster who has died aged 74, was one of the world’s finest players from the 1970s through to the 1990s; in an era of Soviet dominance he was known as “the Best of the West”.

Silver hair and sharp suits have replaced the fresh faces and Soviet tailoring of 1984 but there was no mistaking the aura surrounding two of the world's greatest chess players, Garry Kasparov and ...

The international chess world descended into chaos and bitter accusations of cheating today with the controversial re-election of the president of the World Chess Federation, who defeated the former ...

Mr. Karpov has been a loyal defender of Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, and the invasion of Ukraine. But he has also expressed sympathy for the war’s civilian victims on both sides. By Victor ...

One of the fiercest and most politically charged rivalries in world chess resumed today when former world champions Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov arrived in the Spanish city of Valencia for a ...