A prominent women’s chess player has accused a fellow player of rape and sexual harassment as she warned a “toxic culture“ of misogyny and sexually predatory behaviour plagues the chess community.

Bodhana “pulled off the win” after she beat “60-year-old Grandmaster Peter Wells,” per the International Chess Federation A 10-year-old girl just became the youngest person ever to win the Woman ...

Vaishali Rameshbabu, sister of Grandmaster Praggnanandhaa, has carved her own path by winning the FIDE Women’s Grand Swiss ...

Oregon’s first woman grandmaster in chess is 16-year-old Zoey Tang, a junior at Westview High School in Beaverton. “Woman grandmaster” is the highest chess title restricted to women that is awarded by ...

Harrow schoolgirl Bodhana Sivanandan, 10, has made history as the youngest-ever woman international chess master and hopes to ...

Less than two months after Divya Deshmukh and Koneru Humpy faced off in a historic all-Indian final at the FIDE Women’s World Cup, R Vaishali became the first player, male or female, to win ...

An eight-year-old British schoolgirl “phenomenon” won the women’s first prize in the Blitz category at this year’s European Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship in Zagreb, Croatia. The “super talented” ...

Joining Gukesh will be top stars like five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand, Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Alireza ...

The regulatory organization that governs international chess competition announced this week that transgender women would effectively be banned from playing in women’s events until further notice. In ...

National Master (NM) Anees Ur Rehman Zaidi won the 14th Rawalpindi Chess Championship held at Bravo Foods in Commercial Market. He took the Open Category title while Salman Ali Khan securing a strong ...