He is Magnus Carlsen, a hunky 24-year-old chess sensation whose popularity since twice winning the world championships, first in 2012 and again in 2014, has transformed him into a rock star in his ...

A chess player accused of cheating is taking legal action against leading figures in the game who he claims “destroyed his life” simply because he beat the reigning world champion.

India's grandmaster Gukesh Dommaraju arrives for a press conference after winning against China's chess grandmaster Ding Liren in game 14 of the 2024 FIDE World Championship in Singapore.

That places Eze in the top 15 per cent of all Chess.com players, cementing him as a solidly above-average player. FIDE, chess’s main governing body, classifies anything below 1,000 as novice.

The boy who would be king: Anand Five-time World Chess Champion and Gukesh’s mentor Viswanathan Anand took to social media and shared a photo of him with a young Gukesh, recalling the moment ...