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”.

Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky unexpectedly passed away in Charlotte, North Carolina. The media figure's death was announced by his chess club, the Charlotte Chess Center, and they shared a ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world’s top chess player, is bored of chess. Carlsen has spent much of the past year appearing to dismiss the game he has mastered: It was no longer exciting to play, he told a ...

The teenage chess player who World No.1 Magnus Carlsen took a selfie with and then reported her to judges for using her phone ...

BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team look at why sportspeople like Erling Haaland, Victor Wembanyama and Eberechi Eze are all chess superfans.