At the Women’s Grand Prix held in Astana, Kazakhstan, FIDE’s official commentator Ilya Smirin made some “completely unacceptable” sexist remarks publicly but also privately as revealed by his co-commentator...

Arkady Dvorkovich, 50, a former Russian deputy-prime minister, is having a really, really hard term as a FIDE president

Russian Grandmaster Sergey Karjakin has been banned for 6 months by FIDE’s Ethics Commission for supporting Russia’s invasion in Ukraine and allegedly damaging the reputation of FIDE

BERLIN, Germany — Meduza, a popular Russian-language media, published an explosive investigation about underage female chess players who have been receiving pornographic clippings and used condoms in the mail

The first round of the group stage began at 3 pm at the City Centre on Unter den Linden with the opening call from Ivan Syrovy, Chief Arbiter of the event