With defending champion Magnus Carlsen among other absent, here are the top foreign players to watch at FIDE Chess World Cup 2025.

Danny Rensch is at the vanguard of chess. But to get to where he is now – a self-described “shepherd” for chess in his role as chief chess officer at Chess.com – Rensch has been on quite the life path ...

FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 will be held in Goa with 206 players, including Gukesh D and Divya Deshmukh. Prize fund is 2 ...

The Associated Press quotes Ken Regan about how online chess matches are more likely to involve cheating, as opposed to ...

U.S. chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky died this week at age 29. Former world champion Vladimir Kramnik had accused ...

Meanwhile, grandmasters have slammed Kramnik on social media for how he treated Naroditsky. American grandmaster Hikaru ...

During the World Rapid and Blitz Championship in October 2024, Naroditsky called Kramnik “worse than dirt” after the cheating ...

Chess prodigy Daniel Naroditsky, a popular American grandmaster, has passed away at 29. His death, announced on October 20, ...

The same goes for two of Chess.com’s founders, Danny Rensch and Erik Allebest, when they were shopping out their platform to potential investors. Rensch tells Fortune they were routinely overlooked ...

You’re reading The Sporting Scene, Louisa Thomas’s weekly look at the world of sports. Danny Rensch grew up in a village on the edge of a great forest, in the mountains outside Payson, Arizona. He ...