Koneru Humpy is leading the six-player double round-robin Norway Chess tournament with 8.5 points at the halfway mark and ...

Defeats are an integral part of life but “not accepting” them and wanting to “prove” oneself time and again is the mantra that has kept the competitive fire in two-time women’s world rapid chess ...

India’s grip on world classical chess tightened further last week at Bucharest, Romania, where the victory of Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, 19, compensated for the continuing indifferent form of his ...

Players from the United States often lean toward fast formats like blitz or bullet chess. These versions demand quick decisions and leave little time for deep planning. The pace suits a culture ...

Grandmaster Murali Karthikeyan signed off in fourth place at the Asian Individual Blitz Chess Championship, with Padmini Rout replicating the result in the women’s section to emerge as the top ...

If chess startup MGD1’s founders Manu Gurtu and Sreekar Channapragada are to be believed, the two disciplines are fundamentally the same. "We believe that chess is an esport. Even over-the-board ...

Photograph: Padmini Rout/Instagram Grandmaster Murali Karthikeyan signed off in fourth place at the Asian Individual Blitz Chess Championship, with Padmini Rout replicating the result in the women ...

The Pip with Pizzazz is returning to Broadway — Lea Michele will star in the long-rumored “Chess” revival as Florence Vassy. She will be joined by Tony Award winner Aaron Tveit (“Moulin ...

BERLIN — Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen was forced into a draw Monday by more than 143,000 people worldwide playing against him in a single, record-setting game. Billed as “Magnus ...