“I offer a draw”, declared my seasoned opponent during the sixth round of the Annemase International Open last year. It was ...

Highlighting the appeal of chess for all, visiting Chess Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand last week played against 19 children at the same time during an exhibition event in Nicosia.“Chess is like a ...

The machine could defend its king and reach checkmate, although it could take up to 63 moves, and standard chess rules would call a draw on 50 moves without a capture or pawn move. In 1920 ...

American Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, who occupies the No 2 slot in the latest FIDE Classical ratings and is also the ...

The sixth game of the World Chess Championship 2024 between Ding Liren, the defending champion, and the Indian Grandmaster Gukesh ended in a 46-move draw with a threefold repetition. The ...

half a point for a draw, and zero for a loss). Should he triumph in Singapore, he will become India’s second world chess champion after Viswanathan Anand. Perhaps such success shouldn’t have ...

There was triple delight for Wadifa, who not only won the women’s championship but also earned the status of a Women’s ...

a draw as half point and a loss as zero. The first player to reach 12.5 points would be declared the winner. In Game 1, on July 11, Fischer sacrificed a Bishop for two pawns in what the chess ...

Indian players R Praggnanandhaa and Aravindh Chithambaram lead the Prague Masters chess tournament with 3.5 points each after five rounds. This round witnessed Wei Yi's victory over Sam Shankland.