Magnus Carlsen's record in Armageddon games has been astonishing. Despite his recent setbacks, his overall win rate in this ...

Virat Kohli's RCB reached the IPL 2025 final, while Magnus Carlsen secured a near-perfect win against Arjun Erigaisi at ...

"Magnus Carlsen vs. The World" online chess game ends in a draw, with the grandmaster lauding his 143,000 opponents' "very, ...

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London - Chess king Gary Kasparov was unsettled by the pretender to his crown as the world chess championships opened on Sunday - apparently stunned by an obscure defence that experts said he had not ...

The world chess championship was evenly poised right ... Playing with black, the game was steered into a variation of the King’s Indian Attack: French, Reversed Grünfeld Variation.

The Chess World Championship is designed to be the ... Anand completely changed his preferred opening from the queen's pawn to the king's pawn prior to the 2008 world championship match against ...

"The rain, the clouds, the lack of sun - I feel at home here," Nikita Vitiugov says. London, the chess grandmaster remarks, feels similar to St Petersburg, in terms of the weather, at least.

As the highest-rated player and club president, Cambareri is hailed as the chess “king.” When Cambareri began playing chess, for him, it was just “one of those board games.” But it’s ...