Tanishka Garg, from Bathinda, is the youngest female from Punjab to achieve an international chess rating. She earned the ...

Mercury Near the Caspian Sea The strange story began on August 2, when a regional chess tournament was taking place in Makhachkala, a Russian town on the Caspian Sea just north of Azerbaijan.

In chess, we normally start with a handshake, here you just wave,” said Igor Khmelnitsky, an international chess master.

Dommaraju unseated China's Ding Liren to become the new world chess champion. "Every chess player wants to experience this moment, and very few get the chance," Dommaraju said after the match.

Two Vietnamese chess players are competing at the 2025 Asian Amateur Chess Championships, taking place in Hong Kong, China, ...

Reigning World chess champion D. Gukesh excels in classical and rapid tournaments, aiming to improve blitz format and play ...

The hope is to make marketable stars of chess’s (mostly unknown) players. In addition to Germany’s Baltic coast, the Grand Slam Tour will visit Cape Town, Delhi, New York and Paris.

I’m the only one,” Nakamura said. “If you go back to, say, March 2020 or April, there were no chess tournaments going on, and none of the other top players got into it.

Indian Grandmaster Nihal Sarin reached the Chess playoffs at EWC 2025, defeating Anish Giri and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. In ...