Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest player to win the men’s Candidates chess tournament after a draw against Hikaru Nakamura on a nailbiting final day of the event. The 17-year-old effectively...
17-year-old will play defending champion Ding Liren for title Tan Zhongyi and Ju Wenjun will compete for women’s title Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest player to win the men’s Candidat...
But he has yet to master the art of losing gracefully I am beset by shrapnel. Pawns fly through the air like exploded balcony segments, rooks plink and plonk off the floor and embed themselves ...
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/21/my-five-year-old-son-is-learning-to-play-chess
Tunde Onakoya, who beat previous record of 56 hours, hopes to raise $1m for children’s education in Africa A Nigerian chess champion has broken the record for the longest chess marathon after...
With just the final two rounds to come, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Hikaru Nakamura and Gukesh Dommaraju share the lead while the world No 2, Fabiano Caruana, is half a point behind With 12 rounds comp...
The 33-year-old Russian, a defeated world title challenger in 2021 and 2023, is in line for a third attempt as he leads in Toronto at halfway Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi leads at halfway in t...
Contest to decide Ding Liren’s challenger began on Thursday, while the world No 1 kept up his winning streak in the Grenke Classic The eight potential challengers who began the Candidates tou...
Lu Miaoyi jumped to the 2400 international master level at Reykjavik, while Alice Lee beat the US No 1 Irina Krush in St Louis In November 2022 this column wrote that a then little-known 12-yea...
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/mar/29/lu-miaoyi-alice-lee-14-chess
Classic chess game | Music memories | Kiwi confusion | Spider insider Leonard Barden’s description of the “match of the century” in 1972 (Chess: Fischer v Spassky revisited – Reykjavik ...
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/mar/22/a-masterclass-across-the-board
Freestyle Chess (also known as Fischer Random and Chess 960) has announced a $1m tournament in each of five continents Freestyle Chess, which made an impressive debut last month , has firmed up...
More than 400 players, including several young English talents, are competing in Iceland’s premier event More than half a century on, the Bobby Fischer v Boris Spassky series at Reykjavik in ...
The top seed fought back from a fifth-round blunder and won the title after a playoff with Ireland’s No 1 woman, Trisha Kanyamarala Danny Gormally, the top seed, fought back from a fifth-roun...
The eight-time British champion, 52, has played 63 games without defeat, while Ruqayya Rida, 12, scored against two GMs and Bodhana Sivanandan, eight, is the new world No 1 under-nine Michael A...
The world No 1’s impressive victory last week has put the random chess variant into the spotlight and its billionaire organiser plans to expand into all five continents next year After the su...
Ashwath Kaushik of Singapore defeats 37-year-old grandmaster, beating record set days before by another eight-year-old An eight-year-old chess prodigy from Singapore has become the youngest che...
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/feb/20/eight-year-old-beats-chess-grandmaster-youngest
The world No 1 recovers from a slow start to defeat young rivals Firouzja and Abdusattorov while China’s world champion is unable to shake off a losing spiral “Freestyle chess” is a new n...
The Norwegian, 33, continues to dominate online chess and has won 14 of the the past 17 Tour finals he has contested Magnus Carlsen, the world No 1, maintained his outstanding record in the ...
The 24-year-old was a grandmaster at 13 and the youngest ever 2700-rated player at 15, now he has jumped into the world top 10 with a chance to aim for the ultimate peak China’s Wei Yi, 24, c...
The 31-year-old, who took eight months off due to illness, planned a comeback at the “chess Wimbledon” but, with just two weekend rounds left, he is only half a point clear of bottom place ...
The Chennai teenager is being backed by his country’s second wealthiest individual as he bids to win the Candidates at Toronto in April and qualify for a title match against Ding later in 2024 ...