Chess

Chess star Jennifer Shahade says St. Louis-based U.S. Chess retaliated after she became a whistleblower.

More than 100 St. Louis Public Schools students from 27 schools competed in the contest to name the next SLPS chess grandmaster.

In an exclusive in the Wall Street Journal, reporters Andrew Beaton and Joshua Robinson report one of the game's top competition providers will no longer work with the St. Louis Chess Club over allegations the club overlooked accusations of sexual misconduct against a top grandmaster.

In a civil lawsuit filed in a federal court in St. Louis, chess grandmaster Hans Niemann alleges that world champion Magnus Carlsen, chess.com, chess video streamer Hikaru Nakumura and others committed slander, libel and unlawful group boycott, among other accusations.

Niemann, a grandmaster, is competing in the U.S. Chess Championships tournament that began Wednesday in St. Louis.

The scandal has been the talk of the chess world this month. Interest exploded last week after Carlsen resigned from a match against Niemann after making only one move.

A grandmaster describes the life of a chess champion.

Here are some tips for keeping your New Year's resolutions for chess players.

The governing body of chess in the U.S. will bring its headquarters to St. Louis this year.

Susan Polgar retires from Webster University on May 31 after nine years of leading its chess team to huge success. She discussed her career, and her tenure in St. Louis, on "St. Louis on the Air."