Following his World Chess Championship victory, D Gukesh visits the Tirumala Temple in Andhra Pradesh, shaving his head to ...

At just three years old, twins Deauwin and Beauwin Rens taught themselves to play chess by watching their father. Now seven, ...

India's Pranav Venkatesh clinched the World Junior Chess Championship (Under-20 ... Levrencic chose the Sicilian defence, but the game took an unexpected turn when Venkatesh sacrificed a pawn ...

When Mr. Spassky, a Russian, played Bobby Fischer, an American, in Iceland at the height of the Cold War, the media attention ...

The 1972 showdown between Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky and American grandmaster Bobby Fischer, which was dubbed ...

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 ...

is bored of chess. Carlsen has spent much of the past year appearing to dismiss the game he has mastered: It was no longer exciting to play, he told a podcast in March. In December, he withdrew from ...

Mental conditioning coach Paddy Upton has said that a minor tweak in room temperature helped D Gukesh overcome fatigue on his ...

Chess grandmaster Nigel Short, widely regarded as one of the greatest British chess players ever, visited Guam on Friday as ...

“The popularity of the game has never been as high as ... on its authority by seeking to brand a Freestyle Chess event as a world championship. FIDE previously hosted a Chess960 world ...