Gukesh Dommaraju, the 18-year-old chess prodigy from India, has unseated China's Ding Liren to become the new world chess champion. Born in 2006, Dommaraju is the youngest world champion of all time, ...

An all-Indian World Chess Championship between D Gukesh and R Praggnanandhaa could bring the showpiece back to India, with ...

Viswanathan Anand, who had become India’s first Grandmaster played Dibyendu Barua, Calcutta’s own, in 1992; Such was the ...

Between sips of cappuccino at a Queen Anne coffee shop, the best chess player in America explains what it takes to rise to the top of one of the world's most challenging and competitive games. "One ...

Russian-born chess grandmaster and émigré Gennadi “Genna” Sosonko still remembers where he was 40 years ago today, when he ...

On a busy Saturday afternoon at a Starbucks in Garden City, as customers ordered pumpkin spice and strawberry acai drinks, Alexis Crisp’s black knight and rook chased Kat Hankinson’s white king into a ...

Percy Yip is not a parent who will lose on purpose to his child. His daughter, Carissa Yip, learned this the hard way. After learning the game in an elementary school chess club, she played with her ...