Hans Niemann and Ian Nepomniachtchi played out a spectacularly dramatic quarter-final in the play-in tournament which is being held to book the final slot in the 10-player Weissenhaus leg of the ...

Alireza Firouzja was born in Iran in 2003 and started playing ... making him the first professional chess player to sign with an esports company. Nakamura wrote a book about speed chess, called ...

Islamic practices in Uzbekistan, after enduring seven decades of Soviet-imposed atheism, are now being increasingly adopted ...

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 ...

Both GMs won over $1,000,000 in the World Championship alone, with the 18-year-old Indian surpassing $1.5 million, taking first spot, according to Chess.com Alireza Firouzja, an Iranian-born ...

ON FEBRUARY 7th the inaugural tournament of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour will begin on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast. My anticipation is immense. At the Weissenhaus Resort, the world’s top ...

What are three popular tropes that romance novels use? Jennifer Harlan, a New York Times books editor, recommends three romance novels that show off those tropes at their best. An author of books ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Our recommended books this week tilt heavily toward European culture and history, with a new history of the Vikings, a group ...

In the literary world, this year is shaping up to be a good one for fans of cultural criticism: There are new books about Better Call Saul and biographies of James Gandolfini and Lorne Michaels on ...

Arjun capped off his year with a triumph at the WR Chess Masters Cup in London, outplaying an elite field including Anand, Alireza Firouzja, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, ...

(What? Just me?) There’s no such thing as an excess of good books, but the roster of forthcoming publications is certainly staggering. Fiction lovers have much to look forward to, with incoming ...

Former Manchester City captain Tony Book has died at the age of 90. One of the most successful players in the club's golden era of the late 1960s and early 1970s, Book won domestic and European ...