Born in Havana in 1888, former world chess champion José Capablanca is generally considered to be one of the top five players of all time. Such subsequent champions as Anatoly Karpov and Bobby Fischer ...

Cuba’s annual Capablanca Memorial, which ends on Saturday, has been staged annually with a few small breaks since 1962, and is now in its 53rd year of an evocative history. Ostensibly it honours José ...

CHENNAI: Decades before five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand powered the country’s chess story, it was Mir Sultan Khan who gave India its first hero in the sport. While Anand’s feats on the ...

Recently, the column delivered some insights into chess openings and the middle game. Each phase has had players who excelled in a superior fashion. After the middle game comes the ending. One name ...

Sultan Khan, one of the greatest chess players of all time, is not well known despite facing notable opponents such as Jose Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, and Akiba Rubinstein. 0:00 Intro 1:29 Game 1 ...

Sultan Khan, one of the greatest chess players of all time, is not well known despite facing notable opponents such as Jose Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, and Akiba Rubinstein. 0:00 Intro 1:29 Game 1 ...

"Chess is everything; art, science and sport." So said Russian grandmaster Anatoly Karpov once, and the Capablanca Chess School, the new centre in the city offering professional training in the game ...

Yu Yanghi of China has taken the strongest Capablanca Memorial for some years by storm. The 50th edition held at Havana is a six-player double-round all-play-all with Leinier Dominguez and Lazaro ...