Most of the World’s Top Chess Players Compete in Electrifying Rapid Format for the Most Thrilling Chess Event of the Year This year’s event introduces a thrilling twist: a knockout stage in the later ...

Hikaru Nakamura plays chess like he talks — at a hundred miles an hour. The 35-year-old grandmaster has been the top ranked US player for over a decade and livestreams rapid fire games of online blitz ...

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / December 10, 2024 / Freedom Holding Corp., a NASDAQ-listed global financial services leader, is proud to announce its title sponsorship of the International Chess ...

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” ...

The best thing about manga is that there is a genre about just about every topic you can think of, so of course, there's a manga about chess called Blitz. There may be others, but this is the first to ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The 2024 FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championships is taking the fusion of chess and finance to the next level with the introduction of Wall Street Gambit, a one-of-a-kind ...

World Champion Gukesh D and World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen are among more than 360 players who have confirmed their participation in the FIDE World Rapid & B ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--This holiday season, New York City’s financial district will transform into a battleground for the world's greatest chess minds in the 2024 FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Chess ...

D Gukesh faced a challenging day at the St. Louis Rapid and Blitz, managing only one win and four draws, which caused him to slip to joint sixth place. Levon Aronian surged ahead, reclaiming the lead ...

Daniel Naroditsky was one of the best blitz chess players in the world. His death following accusations of cheating by his ...