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Alexandra Botez unveils Chess Arena trailer as closed playtest opens for battle royale chess game

Alexandra Botez’s Chess Arena brings a real-time battle royale twist to chess as closed playtests officially begin ...
Bleeding Cool

Chess Arena Announces New Closed Beta With Latest Trailer

Check out the latest trailer for the 40-player real-time chess battle royale game Chess Arena, as the game will launch a ...

Magnus Carlsen backs controversial ‘Total Chess World Championship Tour’ amid backlash from top players: ‘Magnus Tour is back’

Magnus Carlsen has backed the new Total Chess World Championship Tour, which has sparked a storm in the chess world, with top ...

Chess-Norway tour gets approval for combined world title

The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has approved a new global competition set up by Norway Chess that will crown a ...

Total Chess World Championship: Why so-called 'Magnus Tour' could undermine FIDE’s crown jewel

Norway Chess announced ‘Total Chess World Championship Tour’, an ambitious new tournament that aims to crown the best player ...

‘Total fluff… nothing new… will just confuse fans’: Hikaru Nakamura’s ‘brutally honest’ review of Total Chess World Championship

Nakamura was particularly unhappy with the fast classic format, which organisers and FIDE have said will count as classical ...

12-year-old Halifax girl competes against world No. 2 chess player at P.E.I. tourney

Michelle Zhang isn’t even a teenager yet, but that didn’t stop her from putting up a strong fight against Hikaru Nakamura ...
New York Post

Male chess player disguises himself as woman, cheats way through championship tournament

In a bizarre turn of events at the Kenya Open Chess Championship in Nairobi, a sneaky man dressed as a woman managed to cheat his way through to the female section of the tournament. The cunning ...