Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess, author Ben Mezrich explores every angle of the match where Niemann ...

But my favourite part – which I think goes hand in hand with those who excel at chess – is her ambition. And ...

Hikaru Nakamura and Anish Giri have probably realized that they would need a bit of philosophical mindset to keep going and ...

The opening, a wild variant of Sicilian Defence, is favored by club players for its very straightforward plan of pushing the ...

Artefacts include souvenirs from 1972 ‘Match of the Century’ between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer A vast collection of chess memorabilia, including souvenirs from the 1972 “Match of the Century” ...

The Norwegian showcased his skills in the chess.com speed championship, but the US star and streamer was twice beaten Magnus Carlsen, the world No 1, visited central London last weekend and won the ...

The world’s number one chess player, Magnus Carlsen, won his fifth Speed Chess Championship (SCC) Finals. Carlsen, 35, banked $25,000 plus an additional split based on winning percentage by beating ...

American chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky died last year after suffering an abnormal heartbeat and had multiple drugs in his system at the time, according to a toxicology report that ruled the ...

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Chess can be improved by rearranging the positions of the starting pieces to produce a more difficult or fairer game, a physicist has found. A standard game of chess always starts with the pieces at ...