Newcomers to chess should consider learning the following openings to ensure they get off to a good start as both White and Black.

UPDATE: Thursday, August 7, 2025 OpenAI O3 beat XAI Grok 4 in the final to win the tournament. Yesterday, Hikaru Nakamura says XAI Grok 4 is by far and away the best chess playing general LLM. Grok is ...

Chess grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura responded to some online backlash over him throwing away a king piece after defeating Gukesh at the Checkmate: USA vs India event.

As far as chess tournaments go, the Louisiana State Championship and Iowa Open are not what you would describe as big-time events. The highest-ranked players from either event last year didn't even ...

World No. 2 Hikaru Nakamura needed to hit a minimum number of games for a shot at the world championship. He sparked a firestorm by beating up on lower-ranked players to get there.

The Alaska Chess Federation is now a local chapter of US Chess and is using a grassroots approach to grow the game.

Alisha Bisaliyeva (G8), Adinur Adilbek (O8), and Danis Kuandykuly (O12) secured individual gold medals. China and the United States followed with one gold, one silver, and one bronze each, with China ...