World of chess

For the first time in the history of chess, online play can lead to an official FIDE rating.

Nearly 200 national chess federations will be offered help spreading the word—backed up by research—that chess is very good for you.

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.