Around 35 Indian chess players are set to compete in the Asian Individual Championship in Al Ain, UAE, vying for coveted FIDE World Cup spots. This year marks the debut of Russian players under ...

BERLIN (AP) — Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen is playing a single game of chess against 140,000 people worldwide in a mega-match that could overturn expectations by ending in a draw in the ...

In the western city of Herat, the Taliban had also banned foreign films, video games and music branding them as anti-Islam. (Representative AI image) The Taliban had also imposed a ban on women's ...

Atal Mashwani, spokesperson for the Taliban's Sports Directorate, told TOLO News that chess has been suspended "due to leadership issues within the national chess federation and religious concerns ...

In the middle of “Saving Private Ryan,” as tension among the squad reaches a boiling point, Captain John H. Miller (Tom Hanks) does something unexpected. He reveals who he was before the war.

Cola Boyy’s second album, a collection of tightly woven, endlessly endearing, and seismically groovy songs called Quit to Play Chess, is also his last. On March 17, 2024, he passed away ...

Indian Grandmaster Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa won the Chess Classic Romania 2025, his first Grand Chess Tour victory. The main event ended in a three-way tie. Praggnanandhaa, French Grandmasters ...

Born in Gudivada, India, in 1987, Koneru Humpy is a chess grandmaster. Her talent for chess was recognised by her father when she was only six years old. By the age of eight, she was already ...

Over in Stavanger, Norway Chess gets underway with world champion D Gukesh taking on world number one Magnus Carlsen for the first time this year. Later in the evening, Mumbai Indians face Punjab ...

Indian Grandmaster Nihal Sarin will start as favourite in the Asian Continental Chess Championship in Al Ain, UAE. The nine-round event will see an in-form Sarin, who is the top seed, competing for ...

That was the message Magnus Carlsen, who abdicated the world champion’s throne two years back, posted on his X account after he forced the reigning world champion Gukesh to resign in 55 moves on ...