Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi have caused a stir in the chess community after agreeing to share the World Blitz ...

The youngest-ever World Champion in the history of the game, Gukesh Dommaraju met with one of the leading business tycoons of ...

“Since the time I started playing chess ... to play a different move until he saw the path to victory that had been opened. “My congratulations to [Dommaraju] on his victory today,” Kasparov ...

The 18-year-old beat defending champion Ding Liren 7.5-6.5 in their best-of-14 final in Singapore on Thursday after the Chinese player blundered in the final game. Draped in the Indian flag and ...

Staring down an epidemic of loneliness, people in their 20s and 30s are gathering to play chess, backgammon and mahjong in hopes that old-fashioned game clubs might help ease the isolation and ...

held placards and photos of their new hero - whose victory has given a boost to dreams of pursuing chess as a professional sport. When he won in Singapore - after nearly three weeks and 14 games ...

India’s D. Gukesh breaks 4-decade-old record held by Russia’s 'G.O.A.T.' Garry Kasparov to become world chess champion He always tries to remember why he started playing the game when he got his first ...

Ding Liren and D Gukesh in action during Game 14 of the ... in Game 14 of the FIDE World Chess Championship in Singapore. The 18-year-old not only became only the second Indian after Viswanathan Anand ...

surpassing a record held by Russia’s Garry Kasparov, who won the title at 22 in 1985. Filatov said “the defeat of the Chinese chess player in today’s game raises a lot of questions and looks ...

as Gukesh has after prevailing over Ding Liren in a 14-game World Chess Championship match in Singapore. In fact, the succession line of world chess champions — which started in 1886 and has seen 17 ...

Kramnik suggested the match marked the 'end of chess as we know it' due to numerous blunders. Kasparov disagreed, arguing the level of play was high and comparable to the previous championship match.