India’s teenage chess prodigy D Gukesh made history last December by defeating Chinese Grandmaster Ding Liren in Singapore to become the youngest world chess champion ever.

India’s grip on world classical chess tightened further last week at Bucharest, Romania, where the victory of Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, 19, compensated for the continuing indifferent form of his ...

Magnus Carlsen downplays his Norway Chess clash with D Gukesh. Explore the stakes for both stars ahead of their showdown.

D Gukesh will face world No 1 Magnus Carlsen in the Classical format for the first time since being crowned the youngest ...

Reigning world champion D Gukesh remains winless after four rounds in the tournament in which he had entered as the top seed ...

Other round 2 results saw Fabiano Caruana split the point with Indian R Praggnanandhaa, and Uzbek Nodirbek Abdusattorov drew with world champion D Gukesh. So will try to regain traction in the ...

Other games saw world champion and top seed Gukesh Dommaraju draw with fellow Indian Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, American second seed and defending champion Fabiano Caruana split the point with ...

Bucharest: World Champion D Gukesh will be the top seeded player at the Superbet Classic, where the young chess wizard will have the opportunity to cross the 2800 rating mark for the first time in ...

Next month, from June 10 to 15, many of the global chess elite will visit London for the €500,000 Fide World Rapid and Blitz Team Championship. As is increasingly the case, the games will be speedy, ...

For players of Carlsen’s generation like Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura — Carlsen, Nakamura and Caruana incidentally ended as the top 3 at Paris — the Freestyle Chess variant also serves a ...

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Other than D Gukesh, Arjun Erigaisi and Magnus Carlsen, the men’s Norway Chess lineup consists of Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura and Wei Yi. Chess fans around the world are gearing up for D ...