Today’s athletes are polished to perfection. Every move is rehearsed, every word pre-approved, and every instinct tamed by ...

D. Gukesh is looking forward to his next event. The Tata Steel tournament at Wijk aan Zee in the Netherlands, starting on ...

A dispatch from the pivotal Game 11 in Singapore that helped make Gukesh Dommaraju an 18-year-old chess champion.

Eugene Torre became Asia’s first Grandmaster in 1974, two years after Bobby Fischer’s historic victory in the World championship match against Boris Spassky. The Filipino living legend ...

Many of India's grandmasters come from Chennai, including Gukesh Dommaraju, the youngest world chess champion. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Commentators sometimes view chess through a geopolitical prism. The 1972 world championship in Reykjavík, Iceland, in which American Bobby Fischer dethroned the Soviet Union’s Boris Spassky ...

Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju shocked the world of chess on Thursday when he became the youngest world champion at the age of just 18. The Chennai-born prodigy defeated defending champion ...

Vasily Smyslov, Boris Spassky, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, and Vladimir Kramnik are the others from Russia to become world chess champions. India has two world champions in the form of Anand ...

The champion arrived and left in a personalized car, decorated with the words: “The new king in the kingdom of chess!” Gukesh broke into tears upon winning the final match against Ding last ...

A god who plays chess? Yes, there is one. Where else, besides Tamil Nadu, the country’s chess capital, can this be? Lord Shiva, the presiding deity at Chaturanga Vallabha Nathar temple in Tiruvarur ...

Chess currently has sponsors for events like ... when Bobby Fischer stopped playing after defeating Boris Spassky at Reykjavik. Then, Anatoly Karpov, world champion by default, proved his class ...