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# Chess

Last year
2023
Transgender chess players banned from women's tournaments
18 Aug 2023
18.1k
All time
US grandmaster Niemann sues chess champion Carlsen over cheating charges
Updated 20 Oct 2022
26.1k
14
Grandmaster Hans Niemann defends reputation after cheating claims
6 Oct 2022
6.0k
2
Teenage grandmaster cheated 'more than 100' times, claims chess platform
5 Oct 2022
39.7k
25
Chess governing body to investigate cheating claims against 19-year-old American player
30 Sep 2022
6.3k
11
Chess champion Magnus Carlsen quits game amid cheating allegations
20 Sep 2022
14.1k
10
Top Russian chess player suspended over Ukraine remarks
21 Mar 2022
90.9k
50
The world's best chess star has become the top fantasy football player on the planet
16 Dec 2019
14.9k
13
'I've met a lot of people who threw away their livelihoods because of how addictive chess was'
25 Dec 2018
25.0k
15
'If you're worried about the physical side of any sport, then play chess'
3 Oct 2017
5.5k
11
World chess champ and Kremlin foe wins European court case against Russia
14 Dec 2016
7.6k
28
Women's chess champion to boycott world finals in Iran over requirement to wear hijab
11 Oct 2016
24.7k
95
A chess champion says men are "hardwired" to be better at the game - and people aren't happy
20 Apr 2015
7.6k
83
Opinion: Struggling Munster must give Hanrahan more game time
29 Sep 2014
7.2k
14
It only took 79 seconds for this guy to beat Bill Gates at chess
25 Jan 2014
1.9k
2
Castleknock killing was “over a game of chess”
12 Jan 2014
77.2k
42
Indian media sees new chess world order after Carlsen win
23 Nov 2013
2.3k
3
Rubber duck beats Pac Man and My Little Pony into Toy Hall of Fame
8 Nov 2013
1.1k
Chess giving hope to slum children
10 Feb 2013
5.6k
13
Sitdown Sunday: 7 deadly reads
Michael Freeman
16 Sep 2012
138
Chess-mad Armenia makes the game compulsory in schools
18 Apr 2011
852
Chess world scandalised by alleged French cheating
25 Mar 2011
513
Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Nine things you need to know by 9am: British police may investigate Neil Prendeville; how Barack Obama was locked out of the White House and the cheating scandal that’s rocking the chess world.
25 Mar 2011
1.6k