Chess has transformed from a niche interest to a national obsession in cricket-crazy India. 2024 marked a pivotal year, with ...

FIDE has dress codes for international events, where suits, collared shirts, and slacks are the norm. Players will sometimes push the bounds of that dress code in the sake of comfort, but denim jeans ...

From extraordinary record-breaking feats to exceptional intellectual prowess, Nigerians have consistently pushed beyond the ...

FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. For 40 years, the chess world has been debating why ...

The Indian is now under pressure to perform with his black pieces and draw level with Caruana who has been dreaming to be a world champion for a few years now. The freestyle chess is built around 960 ...

Gukesh decided not to challenge Caruana in a lost position and shook hands. He will now fight for the last-four spots.

In the other opening quarter-final games, Magnus Carlsen and Vincent Keymer defeat Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Alireza Firouzja ...

If you scrunch your eyes up just as an offensive line sets for a play, the outlines of the players look like chess ...

World Champion D Gukesh began his campaign at the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam tour with three draws and a lone loss, signalling that he is gradually coming to terms with the new format. A brainchild of ...

D Gukesh ends the opening day of the Weissenhaus tournament tied on 2 points with Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura and Vincent Keymer after collecting four draws along with a defeat. Fabiano Caruana ...

“This is an appalling misuse of sanctions and an attack on the survivors of war crimes around the world. None of the International Criminal Court’s officials or the witnesses who have engaged with it ...