Defending champion and Candidate Master (CM) Taffin Khan retained his crown as he prevailed in the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) Open Championship, with Kyle Couchman and Sachin Pitamber rounding ...

Chess News: In a stunning upset at Norway Chess, D Gukesh defeated Magnus Carlsen for the first time in a classical game, marking a historic moment. Carlsen's blu ...

On Sunday, the globally top-ranked Carlsen met face-to-face with current world champion Gukesh Dommaraju for Round 6 of Norway Chess, the closed-access summertime tournament hosted annually in ...

Several top Chinese chess (xiangqi) players, including Wang Tianyi, Zhao Xinxin, Xu Chao and Xie Jing, have been handed prison sentences for their involvement in a major match-fixing scandal.

A two-story garden connected by a spiral staircase lured a maximalist gardener to a Crown Heights condo, where wild interiors match the plantings. With a two-story interior to match. Intelligencer ...

The 18-year-old, crowned the youngest world champion after beating Ding Liren last week, landed to a rousing welcome at the Chennai airport Mumbai: “Peeche chalo, peeche chalo,” (go back), the ...

India's chess star Gukesh Dommaraju returned to a hero's welcome in his home city on Monday after becoming the youngest world champion aged only 18.

Gukesh was just seven when he watched compatriot Viswanathan Anand lose the world chess title in November 2013 to challenger Magnus Carlsen of Norway -- a match that fired up his dream to bring ...

Gukesh became the youngest-ever World Chess Champion with his win over Ding Liren, the men's cricket team ended a World Cup wait and athletes starred in the Olympic Games as well. Here are the top ...

I have no regrets,” Ding said at a news conference after the game, saying he would continue to play chess. [Simon Lim/AFP] When Gukesh realised he had won, he broke into tears.

Like cricket, chess offers a lot of variety these days. It is getting even more varied with freestyle chess and Global Chess League. So chess needs a World title match in the current format. And it is ...

A number of well-known Russian chess players have denounced the war in Ukraine following the full-scale invasion in February 2022. In a country where dissent is dangerous, it's a big statement.