Russian-born chess grandmaster and émigré Gennadi “Genna” Sosonko still remembers where he was 40 years ago today, when he heard that the 1984-85 World Championship match in Moscow between ...

Mental conditioning coach Paddy Upton revealed what it was like working with D Gukesh in the build-up to and during the FIDE ...

The 1984-85 World Chess Championship between defending champion ... "Karpov had become a shell of the player that he once was. And the final, if that happened, I would have bet heavily on Kasparov." ...

World's top chess player Magnus Carlsen has raised US$36,100 by auctioning the jeans that led to his disqualification from ...

FIDE previously hosted a Chess960 world championship but has not ... prize pool that kicked off the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour this week. The final, which is played over two days, concluded ...

Pranav Venkatesh of India clinched the World Junior Chess Championship (Under-20) title by securing a draw against Slovenia's Matic Levrencic. Venkatesh's undefeated streak, featuring seven wins and ...

You just need to hit your potential.” Opening up on the final stages of the World Chess Championship, he said, “12 games, Gukesh loses the first game, which was absolutely okay. Most people ...

He had talked about losing his joy for chess, his struggles with his mental health. The world championship is always a competition between the previous winner and the best challenger; most fans ...

Going into Norway Chess 2025 ... clinched silver at the recently concluded World Blitz Championship 2024. It was a closely-fought affair in the final against Ju Wenjun, but the reigning four ...

India's Pranav Venkatesh clinched the World Junior Chess Championship (Under-20 ... he accumulated nine points from a possible 11. The final round pairings indicated that a draw would suffice ...

India's Pranav Venkatesh has etched his name in history by winning the World Junior Chess Championship (U-20), securing the ...