Africa To Stage Historic First FIDE Chess Olympiad (In 2032, And If A Host Can Be Found)The prospect is quite a long way off, but the Olympiad may finally travel to the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent.April 30, 2026·4 min read
Fish Packer From The Frozen North Becomes Greenland's First Chess ChampionThe story of Egon Mattaaq, who lives in the Arctic Circle where he experiences both polar darkness and midnight sun, will warm your heart.April 29, 2026·3 min read
Caruana Bemoans Lack Of State Support For U.S. Chess And Warns Superpower Is Falling Behind RivalsSpeaking ahead of the 2026 Grand Chess Tour, the reigning and five-time U.S. Champion points to how one of game's traditional superpowers is losing ground to Uzbekistan and India.April 28, 2026·4 min read
Everything Wadim Rosenstein Is Doing Suggests He Wants To Be FIDE President. Here's Why'I often hear different stories about myself,' the billionaire German entrepreneur says as he appears to be preparing the ground for a run at Arkady Dvorkovich's job.April 27, 2026·8 min read
Chess Is a Small Sport. But Everyone Wants to Be FIDE President.No salary. No kingdom. No enforcement power. The job is, by any rational measure, a ribbon. So why is the line to win it longer than it has ever been?April 26, 2026·6 min read
Before the Anal Beads, There Was a Wig. Meet Chess's Original Computer Cheat.Netflix just made a documentary about the biggest cheating scandal in chess history. It started the story thirty years too late.April 25, 2026·6 min read
Did Dubov Beat the World's Best Prep'd Grandmaster From His Bed? He Did.Daniil Dubov beat Javokhir Sindarov — the reigning Candidates champion, the most prepared player in chess, the man with a World Championship match already on his calendar — three games to zero on Thursday. He did this from his bed.April 24, 2026·2 min read
World Chess Weekly: Strongest Uzbek Masters Line-Up Yet Plus Legend's Sage Advice To GukeshUzbekistan goes from strength-to-strength in the chess world and the theme of an India-Uzbek rivalry continues.April 23, 2026·5 min read
Introducing Draw Probability. Now in every game analysis on worldchess.comMost of your games don't end the way you think they do. Draw is the most likely outcome when both sides play well — and until now, nothing in your analysis told you when one was actually in reach.April 21, 2026·2 min read
England's FIDE Delegate Malcolm Pein Fires Starting Gun On Presidential ElectionsChess impresario IM Malcolm Pein says he will try to oust FIDE's Russian president Arkady Dvorkovich if the incumbent is sanctioned by the EU.April 20, 2026·3 min read
FIDE Seeks Legal Opinion Over Russian Championships After Donetsk RowChess Politics·Oct 20·8 min read
Term of the dayChess ForkOne move, two threats: a fork attacks two pieces at once, and only one can be saved.
Game of the dayHow much chess do you actually know?Think you know chess? Eight questions, from easy to unfair. Your score becomes a rating, and we'll tell you how many people you're ahead of.
