FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry ...

A modern ancient world spanned across continents: Twenty-four hours measured as if a lifetime: Dhaka, Dubai and New York City ...

On Sunday, at the end of a fortnight-long tournament, battling fatigue and nerves, the moment of truth arrived. Arjun ...

Indian sports, it must be said had the benefit of such moments not once but twice in recent times and certainly nothing would have gladdened a sports fan more.

In its 87-year-long history, the Tata Steel chess tournament counts among its winners former world champions like Magnus Carlsen (a record eight times), Viswanathan Anand, Garry Kasparov, Vladimir ...

Mikhail Tal was born in 1936 in Latvia and started playing chess at the age of six. He became a Grandmaster at 19. Tal was also a noted chess journalist and author and held the World Chess Champion ...

This is not just a testament to their individual brilliance but also a reflection of how far Indian chess has come as a collective force," Sreekar Channapragada, an avid chess follower and co ...

D Gukesh, playing with black pieces, drew his second-round match in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2025 against Vladimir Fedoseev. The day saw several players settling for draws, including Arjun ...

The 18-year-old Indian, who took the crown last month from China’s Ding Liren, defeated the Netherlands No 1 Anish Giri in the opening round of Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee, the “chess Wimbledon”.

The global governing body of chess, FIDE, has announced that talks with the organisers of Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour have not yielded much as the impasse continues in chess. “Despite intensive ...