At a time before his country became a chess powerhouse, he defeated four world champions, including Bobby Fischer and another in an unlikely turn of events. By Dylan Loeb McClain When Mr. Spassky, a ...

In 2024, Vaishali and Praggnanandhaa became the first brother-sister duo to play in the Candidates Tournament.

The Chicago-born Bobby Fischer held the distinction between 1972 and 1975 after he defeated the Russian Boris Spassky in what is still called the “Match of the Century.” The championship, played in ...

Chess star Fabiano Caruana has criticised the US government for its lack of support towards the sport as he underlined how it ...

T his is how the story of a great chess grandmaster usually begins. A parent or teacher discovers an exceptional mind: a ...

Fabiano Caruana criticises lack of US support for chess, praising India and Uzbekistan as rising powers ahead of a historic ...

In its opening moments, Untold: Chess Mates contextualizes a cheating scandal that rocked the top tiers of competitive chess in 2022—which spiraled out of control with allegations of a player using ...

Bobby Fischer, the first U.S.-born chess player to become world champion, died yesterday in Iceland of an unspecified illness, the country’s national radio said. He was 64, and had lived in secrecy ...

A Canadian journalist’s book analyses an ecosystem proliferated by genius, prodigies, oddballs and eccentrics, all of this sometimes in one person ...

The journey from the Von Neumann to the Niemann affair has much to teach us about the changed landscape of the sport ...

Uzbekistan’s Javokhir Sindarov won the Candidates on Tuesday with a round to spare, setting up a historic under-21 world title match against Gukesh Dommaraju ...

Indian chess star, Aarit Kapil, has pulled off a number of incredible feats before entering his teens, from holding Magnus ...