Following his World Chess Championship victory, D Gukesh visits the Tirumala Temple in Andhra Pradesh, shaving his head to ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin felicitated Pranav Venkatesh for winning the FIDE World Junior Championship 2025, which ...

The all-American SailGP team are struggling so far this season, but there are also reasons to be optimistic about the future ...

Chess is getting ready to make its foray into Esports with teams recruiting top players ahead of this summer's Esports World ...

In a rare double unlikely to be replicated, the new world chess champion is an 18-year-old grandmaster from the Indian city ...

Bobby Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion.

Pranav Venkatesh of India clinched the World Junior Chess Championship (Under-20) title by securing a draw against Slovenia's Matic Levrencic. Venkatesh's undefeated streak, featuring seven wins and ...

Created by Weil for Eins zu Eins gallery, these limited edition pieces exemplify the height of chess table design.

The FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs: World Chess Federation) ratings were officially introduced in 1971. Ever since, only seven players have occupied the position of World Number #1. While ...

The latest chess ranking issued by FIDE, on Saturday, has D Gukesh, winner of the world champion title, reached a new career best of third place globally ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War ...

At the time of their famous match, the Soviet Union had compiled an unbroken streak of world chess championships that stretched back decades. After his loss, Spassky went home to a cold reception ...