Magnus Carlsen, a 34-year-old Norwegian, is among the greatest chess players of all time.

He didn’t exactly have Paul Morphy’s number, but largely unheralded 19th century English master Thomas Barnes — born 200 ...

C HESS IS the sort of deep and rewarding game that you can spend an enjoyable lifetime failing to master. But even ardent fans might concede that, as a spectacle, watching two players think for long ...

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Gukesh and Caruana are both on two points after the result and it remains to be seen who among the rest could overtake them.

The world champion leads compatriot Praggnanandhaa and Uzbekistan's Nodirbek Abdusattorov on tie break criteria. Can he hold ...

It’s something of a rite of passage in chess — the new champ is a marked man when he first returns to the board. Indian ...

The world of chess isn’t as black and white as its pawns and while the sport continues to ... A highlight of this stunning chess set is its king piece, which reportedly weighs 165.2 grams and is made ...

Praggnanandhaa started off with an innocuous Ruy Lopez closed but found his chances in the middle game when Mendonca, could ...

Indian Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa defeated compatriot P Harikrishna, while Arjun Erigaisi settled for a draw in the second ...

Interestingly, all of R Praggnanandhaa's victories have come at the expense of the Indians so far in the tournament.

(More Chess News) Receiving his Khel Ratna on Friday and then ... Leon Luke Mendonca almost outplayed Vincent Keymer and had ...