If you have an even greater need for speed there is bullet chess which, as its name suggests, is the fastest of all variants and an offshoot of blitz. It’s almost always played online with ...

The Covid-19 pandemic supercharged this digital renaissance by driving a 300% rise in new chess accounts, with online ...

KOCHI: Ten years ago, a boy from Kerala made headlines as a chess prodigy. Nihal Sarin had won the under-10 title in the World Youth Chess Championship held in Durban, South Africa, in 2014.

Classical chess is what is ordinarily known as slow chess; not rapid, blitz or bullet chess. The first tournament of 2023 was held mid to late January, namely the Tata Steel Tournament at Wijk aan ...

This is Carlsen's eighth Blitz title (and 18th major chess tournament triumph) while this is Nepomniachtchi first. This meant that serial runner up Nepomniachtchi (three times in Rapid ...