Rakshita Ravi will spearhead India’s campaign as the 4th seed The FIDE World Junior Under-20 Chess Championships 2025 is likely to be streamed live on FIDE's official YouTube channel ...

Indian World Chess Champion D Gukesh credited the COVID-19 lockdown and Viswanathan Anand’s mentorship for India’s chess ...

Boris Spassky, the Soviet chess grandmaster celebrated for his 1972 Cold War clash with American Bobby Fischer, has died at ...

Five-time world chess champion Viswanathan Anand has long been a source of inspiration for chess players in India.

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world ... Soviet chess, Mikhail Tal, the so-called "Magician of Riga". It was not until 1961 that Spassky made a remarkable comeback by winning the USSR Championship.

Born in 1937 in Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg, Spassky showed prodigious talent early, becoming junior world champion and ...

After years of wrangling with authorities, students in Thailand can now let their hair down. Literally. On Wednesday, ...

Wales' double Olympic taekwondo champion Jade Jones is switching sports and has taken up boxing. The 31-year-old says she is ...

Armenian opposition MP Tigran Abrahamyan has described the ongoing show trials of Armenian prisoners in Azerbaijan as a ...

(More Chess News) The 2024–25 Women's Grand ... Her victory at the FIDE Women’s World Rapid Championship to end 2024 has given her a major confidence boost heading into this event.