New badminton find Ayush Shetty and chess wizard R. Vaishali have covered themselves in glory and made the country proud with ...

NEW DELHI – In a dramatic turnaround at the Norway Chess 2025 tournament, India’s teenage World Champion D Gukesh stunned the chess world by defeating former world number one Magnus Carlsen in Round 6 ...

The world of competitive chess is getting younger. Javokhir Sindarov, the 20-year-old Uzbek prodigy, won the Men’s Candidates ...

Silence and few words have long been her forte, shaped in a middle-class household where her father worked as a bank branch ...

Kasparov backs Sindarov as slight favorite over Gukesh for the World Chess Championship, says Sindarov win could tempt Magnus ...

BENGALURU: Even as Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa was beginning to make waves within Chennai's imposing chess circle, he wasn't ...

STAVANGER, NORWAY (ANI) – Five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen praised reigning world champion D Gukesh for his “fighting spirit” following the young Indian’s landmark victory in Round 6 of Norway ...

PARIS, April 14 - Uzbek grandmaster Javokhir Sindarov clinched victory in the Candidates Tournament with a round to spare on ...

IT’S long been seen as the bastion of geeks and brainiacs but the world of chess has had its fair share of shocking scandals.

The new feature-length doc tells the story of Magnus Carlsen, a Norwegian Grandmaster and the No. 1 chess player in the world ...

Magnus Carlsen became a GM when he was 13 years and 4 months old, while Anand, India's first ever GM, was 18 years old when he earned his third norm.

Some locker rooms are filled with chess players -- from multitime NBA champions like Draymond Green and Klay Thompson to ...