International Chess Day highlights how India’s centuries-old board game is forging a new identity in competitive gaming.

Esports World Cup 2025 officially begins on July 8th. 24 games will be played across July and August with the best teams and players in the world converging in Saudi Arabia. Ever since its ...

Chess is getting ready to make its foray into Esports with teams recruiting top players ahead of this summer's Esports World Cup, hoping to attract new audiences as the game continues to grow in ...

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Ralf Reichert, CEO of the Esports World Cup Foundation, has been at the forefront of the sport since its infancy.

With a 70 million USD cumulative prize pool, the stakes are high at the 2025 Esports World Cup. The festival and esports convention includes over 25 tournaments ...

Today, the Esports World Cup Foundation ("EWCF"), and Chess.com announced a multi-year partnership that will bring competitive online chess to the 2025 Esports World Cup (EWC), the world's largest ...

Ralf Reichert, CEO of the Esports World Cup Foundation (EWCF) which organizes the EWC, says merging the tournament with the chess world is a huge opportunity for both parties.

Whether chess is or isn't an esport, or even an actual sport at all, it's now going to be one of the main events at 2025's Esports World Cup. And I think chess is going to work big-time.

Since Chess was announced for the Esports World Cup last week, a number of chess grandmasters have been signing up with Esports teams. World number 4 Arjun Erigaisi, ...