India now boasts four active chess players in the top 10 live ratings for the first time, led by D Gukesh at No. 4 and Aravindh Chithambaram at No. 10.

With 83.59 points from five events — including wins at the Tata Steel Masters and Grand Chess Tour Romania Classic, a joint-second finish in Prague, third place in GCT Poland Rapid & Blitz, and now ...

Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa has ascended to the pinnacle of Indian chess rankings following his triumph at the UzChess Cup ...

Chess News: Divya Deshmukh, the world junior number one, delivered a stunning performance by defeating world number one Hou Yifan of China at the World Blitz Team ...

Arjun Erigaisi’s MGD1 team was the star attarction during the rapid section of the 2025 FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Team Championship. MGD1 won all four matches on the final day, finished in ...

Norwegian chess player Magnus Carlsen participates at the Energy Denmark Champions Battle 2019 in Circus Building, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 22, 2019. (Claus Bech/Ritzau Scanpix/via Reuters ) ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday lauded India’s chess sensation Divya Deshmukh for her first-ever victory over World No. 1 Hou Yifan in the second leg of the blitz semifinal at the World ...

No chess player has ever reached this mark before. Carlsen, a five-time world chess champion who has maintained the world number one position for nearly 15 years, previously peaked at 2882 in ...

With Gukesh standing triumphant, he emerged as the sole leader with 10 points at the end of the second day, with Carlsen ...

A pair of Chargers recently took their skills to the chess board for a great cause. Justin Herbert and Rashawn Slater took part in the fourth edition of BlitzChamps, a chess tournament featuring eight ...

Britain’s recently retired talent told BBC Sport that chess is the latest hobby in his household. “My 5-year-old boy has gotten massively into chess,” Murray said in the interview.