Freestyle Chess, also known as Chess960 or FIDE Fischer Random Chess, is a chess variant where the pieces start in a ...

Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand showed he remains a force to reckon with in a field increasingly dominated by ...

Nihal Sarin has won the Tata Steel Chess India 2026 Open Rapid title in Kolkata despite a last-minute entry, finishing ahead ...

The King Salman World Rapid and Blitz Championships are set to begin tomorrow at Central Chess Club in Moscow ©FIDE World champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway headlines the field. He is fighting not only ...

NEW DELHI: Just like the mythical phoenix, Indian chess has resurrected and flapped its fiery wings in 2024. From GM R Praggnanandhaa and Arjun Erigaisi beating World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen over ...

LONDON (WKRC/CBS Newspath) - Magnus Carlsen, the renowned chess grandmaster, withdrew from the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships on Friday after the International Chess Federation (FIDE) ...

Some of the world’s highest-ranked and most famous chess players have agreed to compete in a new, fast-paced format event, Checkmate: USA vs. India, near Dallas this October. Current world champion ...

Magnus Carlsen defeated Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa in a tiebreak to become Chess World Cup champion on Thursday. After the two had drawn the opening two games of the final, Carlsen won the first of two ...

After 9 draws in 13 games, Gukesh capitalised on an error by Ding and won the final game of the 14-game contest to be crowned ...

The world's first chess franchise league, a brainchild of Anand Mahindra, has cracked the code to turn an intellectual sport ...