Zhou Jianchao now has the longest unbeaten streak record in Classical chess. Image: Charlotte Chess Centre The world’s longest known run of consecutive Classical chess games without losing is over.

R Praggnanandhaa is among seven players who have signed the open letter addressed to the organisers of the Esports World Cup and the Grand Chess Tour. Image: Lennart Ootes / Tata Steel Chess R ...

Among elite chess grandmasters, more than 70% of competitions end in ties. And that is just conventional "over the board" chess; in the growing realm of online competition known as "correspondence ...

Peter Mandelson has been visited by a top criminal lawyer who 'thinks like a chess master'. David Corker from Corker Binning was seen leaving the house of the disgraced peer near Regent's Park in ...