The 2020 chess calendar was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, but major events that took place included the Tata Steel Chess Tournament, won by Fabiano...

Grand Chess Tour (GCT) is a circuit of chess tournaments where players compete for multiple prize pools. Major tournaments that have been featured in the...

Chess.com is an internet chess server and social networking website. The site has a freemium model in which some features are available for free, and...

Chess is a board game for two players. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi...

open-source chess engine, available for various desktop and mobile platforms. It can be used in chess software through the Universal Chess Interface. Stockfish...

determine the World Chess Champion. It was held under the auspices of FIDE and played during Expo 2020 at Dubai Exhibition Centre in Dubai, United Arab...

rounds of blitz chess and boxing until one wins by checkmate or knockout. It is also possible to win by time penalty as in normal chess, and by boxing...

The knight (♘, ♞) is a piece in the game of chess, represented by a horse's head and neck. It moves two squares vertically and one square horizontally...

held an Online Chess Olympiad in 2020 and 2021, with a rapid time control that affected players' online ratings. The use of the name "Chess Olympiad" for...

a chess opening. The series was written and directed by Scott Frank, who created it with Allan Scott, who owns the rights to the book. Beginning in the...

host the Chess Olympiad in Budapest, which was approved by the FIDE General Assembly in December 2020. Hungarian political authorities, chess players as...

International Chess Federation. As of December 2023, the top 10 active Indian chess players have an average rating of 2703, the 2nd highest in the world,...

The 2020 Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour was a series of online chess tournaments featuring most of the world’s best players, playing for a prize money pool...

The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Ding Liren, who defeated his opponent Ian...

The 44th Chess Olympiad was an international team chess event organised by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in Chennai, India, from 28 July to...

Cheating in chess is a deliberate violation of the rules of chess or other behaviour that is intended to give an unfair advantage to a player or team....

A chess rating system is a system used in chess to estimate the strength of a player, based on their performance versus other players. They are used by...

notation is the standard method for recording and describing the moves in a game of chess. It is based on a system of coordinates to uniquely identify each...

The history of chess can be traced back nearly 1,500 years to its earliest known predecessor, called chaturanga, in India; its prehistory is the subject...

FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020 was an online chess tournament organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and hosted by Chess.com. It was...

notation to describe chess moves. Fischer random chess, also known as Chess960 ('chess nine-sixty'), is a variation of the game of chess invented by the former...

as GothamChess, is an American chess International Master, content creator, commentator, and author. Often referred to as "The Internet's Chess Teacher"...

Fast chess, also known as speed chess, is a type of chess in which each player is given less time to consider their moves than classical chess time controls...

World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had...

This glossary of chess explains commonly used terms in chess, in alphabetical order. Some of these terms have their own pages, like fork and pin. For...

to chess: Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard (a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid). In a chess...

September 1995) is an American-Canadian chess player and commentator, poker player, Twitch streamer, and YouTuber. In chess, she holds the FIDE title of Woman...

also a developer for the Stockfish chess engine. Leela Chess Zero was adapted from the Leela Zero Go engine, which in turn was based on Google's AlphaGo...

A chess prodigy is a young child who possesses an aptitude for the game of chess that far exceeds what might be expected at their age. Their prodigious...

5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel (stylized in start case) is a 2020 chess variant video game released for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux by American...