The ancient game of chess is one steeped in tradition, with a history dating back centuries. It was once a game purely of endurance, a test of patience with titanic battles often taking days to ...

Pranav Venkatesh, the World Junior Chess Champion, has his sights set on becoming the World Chess Champion. The 18-year-old from Chennai balances chess with academics and enjoys cricket.

On April 1, 2025, American grandmaster Hans Niemann posted about his potential arrival in Paris for the second leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour. However, five days later, he withdrew for ...

Yekaterinburg’s Church on the Blood — built on the site where the Romanov family was executed — has installed in its courtyard a replica of the pipe that Russian soldiers crawled through to enter ...

Ksenia Karelina, a U.S.-Russian dual national who was detained last year on treason charges, was released from Russia in the ...

"It's now cool to play chess," says Shahade (in black). In March, she and Irina Krush (in white) vied at an art gallery benefit for the U.S. Women's Chess Olympiad Team. Mig Greengard, ChessNinja ...

Chess is one of the most popular board games in the world, and with good reason. Chess isn't always about winning; it's an art, science, and a sport to continue learning from. Even after an uptick ...

Thus it was inevitable, I suppose, that they would come for this. Cue BBC Two’s Chess Masters: the Endgame, complete with ominous music, expert commentators talking us through moves in hushed ...

This is a crossover we're on board for: R Ashwin playing chess against Gukesh Dommaraju, the youngest world chess champion. Ashwin keeps up a steady prattle (or maybe it's commentary), admitting ...

Karelina, a Los Angeles spa worker who was born in Russia, was arrested in February 2024 while visiting family in Yekaterinburg after agents from Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB ...

Ksenia Karelina, also known as Ksenia Khavana, sits in a glass cage in a court room in Yekaterinburg, Russia (AP) A US-Russian dual national jailed in Russia on treason charges was freed in a ...