Magnus Carlsen got a black eye before Game 9 of the World Chess Championship. But it didn’t hinder his vision of the board as Wednesday’s play began. For the first time in nearly two weeks of play, ...

p Hollywood actor Woody Harrelson -- star of "Cheers" and "Hunger Games" -- was given the ceremonial role of moving the first piece but made an unintentionally comical start, knocking over a king and ...

Chess pro Fabiano Caruana nearly defeated Magnus Carlsen in last year's World Chess Championship, but not much has changed for the top-ranked American. The face-off between Fabiano Caruana and Magnus ...

Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen defeated American challenger Fabiano Caruana to win his fourth consecutive World Chess Championship on Wednesday at The College in Holborn, London. Carlsen fended ...

Game 5 of the chess world championship match in London between titleholder Magnus Carlsen of Norway and American challenger Fabiano Caruana took a highly offbeat path in the opening, but the result ...

LONDON – The United States has waited 46 years to crown a world chess champion, but the wait goes on following American Fabiano Caruana’s loss Wednesday in London to Norway’s reigning champion Magnus ...

An American could become World Chess Champion for the first time since Bobby Fischer took the crown in 1972. Fabiano Caruana has won against reigning champion Magnus Carlsen from Norway in 11 games so ...

Reigning world champion D Gukesh will take on Fabiano Caruana in the quarter-finals of the Weissenhaus leg of the ongoing Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour, on Sunday. The India No. 1 lost to Magnus ...

Norway’s Magnus Carlsen beat the United States' Fabiano Caruana in the 2018 Chess World Championship match on Wednesday in one of the most captivating tournaments in history. With Carlsen's win, he ...