Mental resilience and calm focus are a must for chess players Eighteen-year-old Gukesh Dommaraju from Chennai recently became the youngest World Chess Champion, defeating 32-year-old Grand Master Ding ...

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 ...

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