Chess can be improved by rearranging the positions of the starting pieces to produce a more difficult or fairer game, a physicist has found. A standard game of chess always starts with the pieces at ...

The FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Chess C'ships will get underway on Friday, in Doha. In India, live streaming will be available. The FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships is scheduled to begin ...

On a splendid November afternoon in Goa, I watched something familiar unfold on a chessboard. The Indian grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi, world number six, was destroyed by his Chinese counterpart Wei Yi.

Magnus Carlsen has secured the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour title, earning a $100,000 bonus after reaching the semifinals in Cape Town. Despite an early setback, Carlsen fought back to clinch ...

Indian chess prodigy R Praggnanandhaa has earned a coveted spot in the Candidates 2026 tournament by triumphing in the FIDE Circuit 2025. His stellar year, marked by victories in major events, secures ...

Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha is now the youngest rated chess player in the world. (X) Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha has bested a fellow Indian chess prodigy to become the youngest player in the sport’s history ...

At just three years old, a young boy from India has become the youngest chess player to earn an official rating from the International Chess Federation. Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha, born in 2022, beat ...

Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha plays up to five hours a day Indian boy beats adults to secure record-breaking status India’s Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha has become the youngest player in chess history to earn an ...

The death of a young grandmaster accused of cheating by one of his childhood heroes has once again raised the spectre of fraud in the so-called Game of Kings. Daniel Naroditsky, 29, was a pioneer in ...

What went in to making the book to Chess 'work'? The Chess revival's book writer Danny Strong shared his process into rewriting the book to the musical, now playing on Broadway.

With music by ABBA’s Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, the 1988 show revolves around rival American and Soviet chess wizards and the woman caught between them. By Richard Lawson On the digital ...