The journey from the Von Neumann to the Niemann affair has much to teach us about the changed landscape of the sport ...

T his is how the story of a great chess grandmaster usually begins. A parent or teacher discovers an exceptional mind: a ...

Chess players now get scanned to check for electrical devices. But no one is entirely sure these methods are watertight ...

Turkish chess prodigy Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş has become the youngest player in history to surpass the 2700 ELO rating threshold, ...

Garry Kasparov and Magnus Carlsen are widely considered among the greatest players of all time, if not chess’ GOAT. But what ...

R Vaishali made history in Cyprus by becoming the first Indian to win the Women’s Candidates and setting up a World ...

The world of competitive chess is getting younger. Javokhir Sindarov, the 20-year-old Uzbek prodigy, won the Men’s Candidates ...

Gukesh vs Sindarov will be the youngest classical chess World Championship match in history, with a combined age of 39.

Indian grandmaster Vaishali Rameshbabu defeats Kateryna Lagno to win the 2026 Women’s Candidates and qualify for the World ...

Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus, a 14-year-old chess prodigy from Turkey, has achieved a groundbreaking milestone by surpassing a 2,700 rating, unofficially earning the title of 'super grandmaster.' After an ...

Viswanathan Anand, fondly known as “Vishy,” is India’s first Grandmaster and a five-time World Chess Champion who ...

She almost skipped the tournament—now she’s one win away from the world title. R Vaishali’s stunning comeback is rewriting ...