On December 16th throngs of fans waited outside Chennai airport to cheer Dommaraju Gukesh, the 18-year-old world chess champion, on his return to his home city. Mr Gukesh is the youngest ever person ...

The world’s number one chess player, Magnus Carlsen, won his fifth Speed Chess Championship (SCC) Finals. Carlsen, 35, banked $25,000 plus an additional split based on winning percentage by beating ...

It was a real-life Cinderella story, but the glass slipper got upstaged by a pair of blue jeans. Russian teenage GM Volodar Murzin, seeded 59th in a world-class field, is the new FIDE rapid world ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. June 2018 Giant Chess board and players at the Hirschgarten Park Munich Upper Bavaria Germany In competitive chess, where the ...

Defending champion R Praggnanandhaa defeated Aravindh Chithambaram in an all-Indian battle in Round 9 on Tuesday to collect ...

Here's a statistical challenge worthy of a grandmaster: How do you create an accurate ranking system when the best players ...

T Suhaas and E Aishwarya won the boys and girls under-8 titles at the All India Children’s Chess Tournament organised by V ...