The 17-year-old Shreyas won the British Chess Championship while the 11-year-old Bodhana became the youngest-ever women’s winner ...

Dr. Rajinikanth and his wife Dr. Padma would regularly play chess together for fun at their family home in India. Always at their side, watching wide-eyed, observing intensely as each piece was ...

Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen is at the World Blitz Championship — a competition he has won seven times previously — after going head-to-head with organizers over his refusal to change out of jeans ...

EXCLUSIVE: “Plan to leave something behind so your name’ll live on / no matter what the game lives on,” says Nas on his 1999 album Nastradamus, and now the revered rapper is making some moves in a new ...

Sept 22 (Reuters) - Chess governing body FIDE's general assembly on Sunday upheld a ban on Russian and Belarusian players imposed after Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022, while backing a move to ...

Long before Demis Hassabis pioneered artificial intelligence techniques to earn a Nobel prize, he was a master of board games. The London-born son of a Greek-Cypriot father and a Singaporean mother ...

Russia is no stranger to unique poisonings. State agents have been known to use everything from polonium-laced tea to the deadly nerve agent “novichok” when making assassination attempts against both ...

The U.S. Chess Championships are underway at the St. Louis Chess Club in Missouri — home to the World Chess Hall of Fame. Among those competing is 15-year-old International Master Alice Lee, the ...

One of the world’s biggest sporting competitions got underway Monday morning, with reigning champion Ding Liren taking game 1 of the World Chess Championship against 18-year-old phenom Gukesh ...

PARIS, March 12 (Reuters) - Finding chess boring? Try shuffling your pieces on the back rank and you get Chess960, or Freestyle chess, a variant of the game that favours creativity over preparation, ...