The self-destruction of the Austrian army in 1788 caused Austria to lose the Battle of Karansebes to the Turks. Karansebes is in modern day Romania. Austrian soldiers mistook each other for the enemy, ...

The history of chess is riddled with missed opportunities.

Bobby Fischer sparked American chess interest; today, the Saint Louis Chess Club hosts top U.S. players in a significant tournament.

In football, the old adage is that a great defense wins championships. The Philadelphia Eagles won last month’s Super Bowl with great defense. This is in the tradition other champions, ...

In a rare double unlikely to be replicated, the new world chess champion is an 18-year-old grandmaster from the Indian city ...

A tactic used in a 1960 victory over countryman David Bronstein, in which Mr. Spassky sacrificed a rook to open an attack on Bronstein’s king, was copied in a chess scene early in the 1963 James ...

For Indian chess, it was quite fitting that Aravindh’s success came on the same day that 18-year-old Pranav Venkatesh emerged ...

Grandmaster Aravindh Chithambaram won the Prague Chess Masters 2025 with an impressive ... in a King's Indian Defense, winning a rook for a minor piece to secure victory.

In the Prague Masters chess tournament, Aravindh Chithambaram gained the lead by defeating Anish Giri. R Praggnanandhaa secured a draw against Wei Yi, placing him just behind Aravindh. Sam Shankland ...

It was Aravindh all the way, while R Praggnanandhaa played out a draw with pre-event rating favourite Wei Yi of China.

Grandmaster Aravindh Chithambaram crashed through the defenses of super-solid Anish Giri to jump in to sole lead after the end of the seventh round of Prague Masters.

PRAGUE: Grandmaster Aravindh Chithambaram crashed through the defenses of super-solid Anish Giri to jump in to sole lead ...