After 9 draws in 13 games, Gukesh capitalised on an error by Ding and won the final game of the 14-game contest to be crowned ...

A teen from India on Thursday defeated his opponent during the FIDE World Chess 2024 Championship in Singapore, becoming the world’s youngest chess champion at 18. Gukesh Dommaraju, of Chennai, India, ...

The FIDE Candidates Tournaments will take place from March 28 to April 16 and will determine the challengers for Gukesh’s men’s championship and Ju Wenjun’s women’s title.

A dispatch from the pivotal Game 11 in Singapore that helped make Gukesh Dommaraju an 18-year-old chess champion. Ding Liren, top right, and Gukesh Dommaraju, top left, are seen during Game 1 of the ...

Hans Niemann has picked his favourite for the upcoming FIDE Candidates 2026 and gave him a 75% chance of beating Gukesh in the World Chess Championship.

NEW DELHI: Late on Wednesday night, Emil Sutovsky, the chief executive officer (CEO) of FIDE, the International Chess Federation, chose a phrase heavy with symbolism. “Burying the hatchet!” he wrote ...

World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen quit the World Rapid Chess Championship on Friday after he refused to change out of the jeans he was wearing, according to the International Chess Federation (FIDE). Carlsen ...

It could be the unpredictability of the starts in Chess 960, or just the fact that Carlsen needed to stamp his territory in a ...

NEW YORK, December 29. /TASS/. Russian chess grandmaster Yekaterina Lagno has come third at the FIDE World Rapid Championship 2024 in New York. Lagno scored eight points in 11 rounds. India’s Koneru ...

Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen dropped out of the World Rapid and Blitz Championships on Dec. 27 after refusing to ditch his denim as "a matter of principle" Misha Friedman/Getty World ...

The chess world is never short on scandals, and the latest one is incredibly on brand. Top-ranked former world champion Magnus Carlsen recently showed up to a tournament in jeans, refused to change, ...

Dec 29 (Reuters) - Chess great Magnus Carlsen will return to the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in New York after initially quitting following governing body FIDE's decision to bar him from ...