Ronnie O'Sullivan is due to return to action at the World Open in Yushan next week after withdrawing from the Welsh Open in Llandudno on Tuesday.

This is not just a testament to their individual brilliance but also a reflection of how far Indian chess has come as a collective force," Sreekar Channapragada, an avid chess follower and co ...

Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2025, Round 1 Highlights: Gukesh, who was playing with white pieces against Anish Giri, has won his first game as the world champion in the first round of the Tata Steel ...

Sindarov was roped in as a last-minute replacement for five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand, who pulled out as the FIDE versus Freestyle Chess battle got ugly in recent weeks. Anand is a deputy ...

The first thing one might say about David MacEnulty’s new book, "Sunrise in the Bronx: Chess and Life Lessons from the South Bronx to the White House," is that the author seems to be a heck-of-a ...

Orphaned at the tender age of nine, prodigious introvert Beth Harmon discovers and masters the game of chess in 1960s USA. But child stardom comes at a price.

29 in November of 2021, his highest held rating was 2715; today, he occupies No. 63 on the rankings, with a rating of 2661. Alekseenko was among 43 other Russian elite chess players who signed an open ...

According to FIDE, Freestyle Chess lacks an open qualification pathway and primarily features hand-picked elite players, making it ineligible for official World Championship status. The situation took ...

A massive cheating controversy has rocked the chess world inhina after the Chinese Xiangqi Association (CXA) handed three players lifebans and also penalised plenty, according to a report from the ...

Indian president Droupadi Murmu honoured D Gukesh, the youngest world chess champion, with the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award. At 18, Chennai-born Gukesh stunned everyone and won the World ...

What are the best open-world games? From the early days of gaming, open-world games have always been right at home on PC. The leap into full 3D with Grand Theft Auto 3 and The Elder Scrolls III ...

When Still Wakes the Deep isn’t delivering accursed, heart-pounding horror, it’s offering an expletive-filled primer in the Scottish language. Verisimilitude, of place, period, and slang ...