Nihal won on Friday evening, after the passing of his maternal grandfather - who had taught him the sport - on Thursday night ...

In competitive chess, where the clash of queens and bishops usually eclipses cultural warfare, a teenage girl has found herself at the center of Germany’s latest front in the debate over transgender ...

For Grandmaster Nihal Sarin, that moment came on Thursday night when he learned that the man who first taught him the game, ...

This chess player entered the final game of 2025 expecting a calm positional battle. Instead, the match quickly turned into a tense struggle filled with uncertainty and missed opportunities. A ...

A new study says many AI models will cheat when playing a game of chess. Researchers pitted the AI against Stockfish, a powerful open-source chess engine. But some models, including Open AI’s o1 ...

On December 16th throngs of fans waited outside Chennai airport to cheer Dommaraju Gukesh, the 18-year-old world chess champion, on his return to his home city. Mr Gukesh is the youngest ever person ...

Christopher Wiggins is a senior national reporter for The Advocate. He has a rich career in storytelling and highlighting underrepresented voices. Growing up in a bilingual household in Germany, his ...

How to watch the Cavs: See how to watch the Cavs games with this handy game-by-game TV schedule. As the Cavs showed on Wednesday in their 121-112 win over the Miami Heat, taking a 2-0 series lead in ...

M Ritesh and K Aadyareddy won the boys and girls under-15 titles at the Pragathi Chess Academy All India Sub-Junior Chess ...

It was a real-life Cinderella story, but the glass slipper got upstaged by a pair of blue jeans. Russian teenage GM Volodar Murzin, seeded 59th in a world-class field, is the new FIDE rapid world ...

US Chess master Tunde Onakoya has shared the inspiring story of two brothers he adopted after their mother’s passing. The brothers, Jamiu and Ayomide, who were living in poverty in Ikorodu area of ...