D Gukesh reveals the secret to his meteoric rise in chess that saw the 18-year-old overtake the legendary Viswanathan Anand as the top-ranked Indian chess player after 37 years in 2023 and become the ...

Magnus Carlsen hated homework and blossomed when he no longer had to go to school. Today, he plays chess according to a new set of rules and is engaged in an ongoing battle with the World Chess ...

“You think of the great Russian players — Pavel Bure, Alexander Mogilny, Sergei Fedorov, Artemi Panarin, Kirill Kaprizov — ...

"It's now cool to play chess," says ... favored by the legendary 1972 world champion, Bobby Fischer, and current world number one, Garry Kasparov of Russia. Black (Shahade) goads White (Krush ...

The FIDE Fair Play Commission had ruled ... Anatoly Karpov and the legendary Garry Kasparov. Notably, Russia hasn’t had a world chess champion since 2006 when Kramnik was beaten by countryman ...

India’s legendary chess player, Viswanathan Anand ... the choice between Cuban endgame genius Jose Raul Capablanca and Russia's great strategist Alexander Alekhine. Anand chose Capablanca ...

and they’re the chess players that you expect from Russia,” said Steven Warshaw, a marketing executive who lived and worked in Moscow for the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 1990s when they ...

Her rendition of "Poker Face" saw Gaga playing against her dancers in a giant chess game -- the type of performance art ...

Anand was given multiple options—all legendary chess players—to choose from. The list included Cuban great José Raúl Capablanca, French legend Alexander Alekhine, Russia’s Boris Spassky, as well as ...

Champion chess player and Soviet dissident Garry Kasparov has a few thoughts about how well democracy in the U.S. is doing. He tells NPR's Scott Simon that it's not America first - it's America alone.