The 2024 FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championship began with quite an upset as Magnus Carlsen, the World No 1 and defending World Rapid champion, was stunned by 18-year-old GM Denis Lazavik and managed ...

For the first time in World Blitz Championship history, the open section has two champions after Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi agreed to a draw after tiebreakers in the final with the score at ...

Vidit Gujrathi emphasises the mental challenge in Gukesh's World Championship defence against Sindarov, despite Gukesh's ...

A dispatch from the pivotal Game 11 in Singapore that helped make Gukesh Dommaraju an 18-year-old chess champion. Ding Liren, top right, and Gukesh Dommaraju, top left, are seen during Game 1 of the ...

Dr. Rajinikanth and his wife Dr. Padma would regularly play chess together for fun at their family home in India. Always at their side, watching wide-eyed, observing intensely as each piece was ...

One of the world’s biggest sporting competitions got underway Monday morning, with reigning champion Ding Liren taking game 1 of the World Chess Championship against 18-year-old phenom Gukesh ...

It had been an unexpectedly close contest in Singapore with Ding Liren. When he won, the normally stoic Gukesh clasped his hands at the board and burst into tears. By Dylan Loeb McClain See more of ...

Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen is at the World Blitz Championship — a competition he has won seven times previously — after going head-to-head with organizers over his refusal to change out of jeans ...

Vientiane, Laos ---47 years old Filipino and United States Chess Master Almario Marlon Quiroz Bernardino Jr., a veteran ...

England's prodigy Bodhana Sivanandan became Britain's youngest-ever Women's Chess Champion - something she has achieved ...