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.

Now the country boasts four of the world’s top 20 players ... s Boris Spassky, was widely framed as a contest between the rival superpowers. Geopolitical trends are still reflected in chess ...

With that in mind, ESPN's Bill Connelly, David Hale, Chris Low, Adam Rittenberg and Paolo Uggetti combed through the rosters of all 12 playoff teams to rank the top 50 players of the College ...

Both put their careers on hold to push their son. "Initially I just used to watch my family members play chess at home, just as a hobby, just like any other board game. But then I got interested ...

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 ...

“Every chess player wants to experience this moment, and very few get the chance. To be one of them, the only way to explain it is I am living my dream.” Dommaraju’s triumph arrived just ...

The record was previously held by chess legend Garry Kasparov, who was 22 years old when he won his first world title in 1985. The 18-year-old is also just the second Indian player to have claimed ...

We just did a good job on that play,” Johnson said. It wasn’t exactly clear what Johnson meant by the comment, but football piles have a tendency to be places where the rules don’t apply.

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 ...