The espionage genre always delivers something exciting for audiences to enjoy. Watching spies take on dangerous missions is packed with thrills and tension. It can be done in both serious and ...

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 ...

Perhaps most remarkable, however, was Reshevsky’s unwavering commitment to his faith as a devout and fully-observant Orthodox Jew. He dedicated a portion of each day to the study of Torah and steadf ...

FIDE director general Emil Sutovsky responded to Magnus Carlsen and leaders of his Freestyle Chess venture in a heated social media post.

Freestyle Chess head Jan Henric Buettner recently gave interviews to Norwegian media calling FIDE "stupid" and saying they ...

When D. Gukesh goes to defend his world chess champion’s tag in two years’ time, there could well be another Indian standing ...

After a war of words with world No 1 Magnus Carlsen, FIDE CEO Emil Sutovsky had taken aim at American Grandmaster and popular ...

The youngest woman to be grandmaster, three decades of playing the sport and now twice World Rapid Champion. Yet, as she says ...

Newly-crowned world chess champion D Gukesh is looking forward to the day when the sport will become a part of the Olympic curriculum, which, he said, would take it to an altogether different level ...

Last year, the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships, the final tournament of the year, saw plenty of controversy. The Rapid competition was shrouded by Magnus Carlsen’s jeans scandal.

Mark Pope is scared to face Collin Chandler, but it has nothing to do with basketball. Pope is worried he’s going to lose his seven-match chess series against the freshman guard. Chandler appears to ...

The matches in each round are likely to spread over a few days once fixtures are confirmed. Here's how the fixtures and results look, from the third round on when Premier League sides enter the ...