World of chess

World Chess (LSE: CHSS), the London-listed chess company and official commercial partner of FIDE, has launched a new global brand campaign — "Chess Is Very Good For You" — beginning across central London and opening to national federations worldwide.

A decade ago we bought a Lincoln portrait for the Championship VIP room; today, a Warhol arrived in the World Chess office — a small story about backgrounds, transitions, and the walls chess people stand in front of.

Chess is about to get a lot more visible in Europe's largest economy.

The new episode of The World Chess Show features interviews with the former top-10 player GM Judit Polgar, her sister Susan, the first female grandmaster, and the former Women’s World Champion GM Alexandra Kosteniuk.

It was the record-setting match where GM Hans Niemann, yes him, was in a room at the Web Summit taking on 107,000 people with AI on their side. And Niemann won.

Tajikistan's national championships, the early stages, will be hosted on this platform under a new partnership with the Chess Federation of Tajikistan.