But the absence of two of India’s biggest stars, reigning World Champion D Gukesh and Praggnanandhaa R, has been a talking ...

The 19-year-old Divya Deshmukh at the FIDE Women’s World Cup signals that Indian chess’s ascent is far from over.

A seething Magnus Carlsen slammed his fist into a table after suffering his first defeat by world champion Gukesh Dommaraju in a classical game in Stavanger before the Norwegian wondered why he ...