Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, has died in Moscow.

Played under the competition’s old rules, where the champion is the first to win six games and draws are worth nothing, the 1984 World Chess Championship began on September 10. Nine games and 25 ...

American GM Hans Niemann has accepted Russian GM Daniil Dubov’s challenge to prove his innocence in cheating scandal.

India's Pranav Venkatesh clinched the World Junior Chess Championship (Under-20) held in Montenegro, remaining undefeated ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world’s top chess ... the game he has mastered: It was no longer exciting to play, he told a podcast in March. In December, he withdrew from defending a world championship ...

The death of the one-time chess prodigy was announced by the International Chess Federation, the game's governing ... compiled an unbroken streak of world chess championships that stretched ...

Venkatesh’s achievement is part of a broader resurgence in Indian chess, following Gukesh Dommaraju’s historic win in the ...

Grandmaster Pranav Venkatesh is the latest Indian to win the World Junior Chess Championship. Like senior world champions D ...

Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand's rich praise for Pranav: "He's just gifted. One thing which stood out was his ...