Chess

Endeavor Group, the sports and entertainment conglomerate, has made a major move into chess, announcing a strategic investment into the leading gaming platform for the sport, today (Thursday).

Chess.com, a leading chess gaming platform, has partnered with smart TV distribution and marketing firm Wurl to deliver its free ad-supported streaming (FAST) channel, Chess TV, to new streaming platforms

The Global Chess League (GCL) has appointed the Protocol Sports Marketing agency as its exclusive media rights distributor as it prepares to launch next month.

The World Chess company has today (Thursday) completed its initial public offering (IPO) by being admitted to trading on the main market of the London Stock Exchange (LSE)

UK-based sports production company Sunset+Vine has agreed a wide-ranging deal with World Chess, the official online gaming platform of the International Chess Federation, ahead of the launch of a new series…

Professional chess is in a state of complete chaos amid an ongoing 'cheating' scandal between Norwegian world champion Magnus Carlsen and rising American star Hans Niemann, which threatens to overshadow …

Leading chess gaming platform Chess.com has had an $82m (NOK 798,885,386) offer accepted to acquire Play Magnus Group,  the chess company co-founded by world chess champion Magnus Carlsen.

World chess champion Magnus Carlsen tells SportBusiness how he has leveraged his fame and success to create a growing business empire with the Play Magnus Group. Bob Williams reports.

Arkady Dvorkovich, a former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, has been re-elected as president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) after comprehensively defeating a Ukrainian challenger

Indian technology company Tech Mahindra said it will provide a "next generation digital fan experience" under a partnership with the international and Indian chess federations around the upcoming chess…

The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has unveiled the Indian city of Chennai as the host of this year’s Chess Olympiad in a move that comes just two weeks after stripping Moscow of the biennial t…

The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has stripped Russia of the Chess Olympiad and terminated its sponsorship deals with Russian and Belarusian companies following the Russian invasion of Ukraine

The All India Chess Federation has announced the creation of a new franchise chess league, set to launch in June next year

The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has agreed a deal with TON Labs to launch the sport’s first global NFT marketplace.