Peter Giannatos, a close friend of the chess star, tells PEOPLE about his friendship with Naroditsky and the final days before his death “He was a shining star of the chess community in many ways,” ...

PARIS, April 7 (Reuters) - Hans Niemann declares he will become a “stone cold killer” and the world’s best player in a Netflix documentary released on ‌Tuesday about his feud with five-times classical ...

Everybody heard the outlandish cheating accusations. Now Hans Niemann is ready to fight for his reputation, and a chess world championship.

At a time when most kids are learning early lessons in math and science, chess prodigy Gukesh was already contemplating moves on the checker board. Within 5 years he would go on from being a ...

When most people think of chess, they picture elderly gentlemen hunched over boards in the park, contemplating their next ...

In the medieval European imagination, racial difference was often highly polarised. Black people were perceived either as exotic status symbols – including saints and wealthy rulers such as the Queen ...

Before Peter Giannatos discusses his eight-year bond with chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky, he prefaces: “Just to be clear, our personal relationship far outweighed any professional relationship we ...