If leading a country is like playing chess, then 2025 marked a year of carefully crafting a powerful board position. The ...

This December, Magnus Carlsen won both the World Chess Championship in Rapid and Blitz time controls. Rapid is a game played ...

Erigaisi joins Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura and Alireza Firouzja as the only players ranked Top 10 in Classical, Rapid and ...

He's got a devoted heiress wife, a brood of six children, a place in the country as well as a splendid town house in ...

Chess960 involves shuffling the pieces at the back of the board, and an analysis suggests doing so can increase the ...

A sharp political satire predicting what 2026 will not bring—from AI domination to Indian politics and Trumpian absurdities.

The five-person teams came from across Cork city the weekend before Christmas for the round robin tournament, which was ...

A recent exhibition showcased India’s ancient board games, but their archaeological evidence has also been found globally. It ...

This wasn’t the first time Carlsen has expressed his competitive intensity in a visible way. Earlier in 2025, he had a similar table-slamming moment following a loss to fellow Indian grandmaster D ...

Plenty of famous faces appear in this year's honours list - but here are some of the important people you might not recognise ...

Check out the top sports stories from December 29 - from BCCI selectors resting Jasprit Bumrah and Hardik Pandya for NZ ODIs ...

For the third season running, Triveni Continental Kings reached the finals of the Global Chess League (GCL) last week and met ...