The world’s number one chess player, Magnus Carlsen, won his fifth Speed Chess Championship (SCC) Finals. Carlsen, 35, banked $25,000 plus an additional split based on winning percentage by beating ...

On December 16th throngs of fans waited outside Chennai airport to cheer Dommaraju Gukesh, the 18-year-old world chess champion, on his return to his home city. Mr Gukesh is the youngest ever person ...

Here's a statistical challenge worthy of a grandmaster: How do you create an accurate ranking system when the best players ...

Defending champion R Praggnanandhaa defeated Aravindh Chithambaram in an all-Indian battle in Round 9 on Tuesday to collect his first win of the 2026 Tata Steel Chess. D Gukesh, meanwhile, lost to ...

K Naga Sai Sarthak won the blitz title and A Pranav claimed the rapid crown in the Telangana chess selection tournament.

A new study says many AI models will cheat when playing a game of chess. Researchers pitted the AI against Stockfish, a ...