Vantika Agrawal, inspired by chess as a child, became a double gold medallist at the 2024 Chess Olympiad and recently ...

Two prominent voices want chess to change. Carlsen, the 34-year-old Norwegian grand master and five-time world champion who ...

FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. For 40 years, the chess world has been debating why ...

backed by former world champion Magnus Carlsen, was in loggerheads with the world body over the use of the title ‘world championship, and the issue seems to resolve. “The organizers of the “Freestyle ...

Café Blah’s rental dispute begs the question: i ...

PARIS : Freestyle Chess Grand Slam tour boss Jan Henric ... Chess960, created by former world champion Bobby Fischer in 1996, has been gaining in popularity after an invitational tournament ...

The 18-year-old started Sunday by tasting his first defeat as world champion, losing to Chess Olympiad teammate Arjun Erigaisi ... Anatoly Karpov, Mikhail Tal, Mikhail Botvinnik, Boris Spassky, Tigran ...

The Indian juggernaut in international chess remained unstoppable ... the worst tournament of his life, finishes by defeating two leaders back to back in the final two rounds! He inflicts Gukesh's ...

Indian grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa achieved a remarkable comeback to defeat world champion D Gukesh 2-1 in the tiebreaker at Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2025, claiming his maiden title.

The current world champion, though, was knocked out of the World Masters by Jonny Clayton on Sunday afternoon at the quarter-final stage, losing the match 4-2, before Clayton went on to lose the ...