Kolkata: The draws for the sixth edition of the Tata Steel Chess India Rapid and Blitz tournament, carrying a prize purse of $41,500, were announced at Taj Bengal in Kolkata on Tuesday. As the ten ...

NEW YORK, December 16, 2024--This holiday season, New York City’s financial district will transform into a battleground for the world's greatest chess minds in the 2024 FIDE World Rapid & Blitz ...

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.

Indian Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa finished third while Slovenia's Vladimir Fedoseev expectedly won the Superbet Rapid and Blitz tournament, an event on the Grand Chess tour, in Warsaw, on Wednesday.

The victory at Prague has earned him a wild card to the prestigious Grand Chess Tour in Poland. “I have been getting invitations during the course of the tournament and Grand Chess Tour Rapid ...

Nika Juris Nicolas, a 12-year-old chess wunderkind from the Philippines, is starting to become what her coaches have been envisioning her to be —a future Grandmaster.

Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi have caused a stir in the chess community after agreeing to share the World Blitz Championship title earlier this week.. Tuesday’s final in New York was ...

Magnus Carlsen, the No. 1 ranked chess player, quit the World Rapid Chess Championship in New York on Friday after refusing to change out of jeans to conform to a strict dress code.