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

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On a cold November afternoon in 1844, players in Washington opened a chess game in the old, familiar way, with a pawn pushed ...

Chennai Grand Masters is an elite-level annual closed tournament held every year in what is widely considered the chess ...

In the Netflix film, Magnus Carlsen does not say sorry for accusing Hans Niemann of cheating without any evidence ...

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.

Last week, the streaming giant released new feature-length documentary, Untold: Chess Mates, and it has since climbed up the ...

And yet, as a three-time National Chess Champion and a two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, I love to play against them. Not ...

Indian chess prodigy Nihal Sarin brushed off an online opponent’s rude gesture earlier this year, focusing instead on his ...

For more than a decade, the Sinquefield Cup has been a key stop on the Grand Chess Tour, bringing together some of the world’s top players in a competition that helps define the highest level of the ...

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