Bermuda took part in the 2025/26 Queen’s Gambit Challenge, a FIDE-backed global initiative to promote chess among women. A ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world’s top chess player, is bored of chess. Carlsen has spent much of the past year appearing to dismiss the game he has mastered: It was no longer exciting to play, he told ...

Magnus Carlsen, the chess maestro, has shattered barriers by exceeding a 2900 rating in freestyle chess, a milestone ...

Nagpur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis ...

Five-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand defeated India’s current No. 1 Arjun Erigaisi in just 31 moves at the FIDE World ...

American chess master Bobby Fischer: World champion in 1972. Photo Bert Verhoeff /Wikimedia Commons/CC0 World Chess Day. 20 July was designated World Chess Day by the United Nations, to commemorate ...

The Bermuda Chess Association is promoting the Queen’s Gambit Challenge, a free online coaching program for women by the World Chess Governing Body, FIDE. A spokesperson said, “Chess is ...

India's chess teams made history in Budapest on Sunday as they won gold in the open and women's categories at the 2024 Chess Olympiad. The open team of D. Gukesh, R. Praggnanandhaa, Arjun Erigaisi ...

In 2011 at the age of 19, the Swedish grandmaster became the youngest person to ever top the International Chess Federation (FIDE) world rankings—a position he’s occupied ever since.

Chess queen meets PM Modi. ... Modi on Friday called Grandmaster Koneru Humpy "a sporting icon" after she met him following her recent triumph in the FIDE Women's World Rapid Chess Championship in ...