The cerebral, staid world of chess has been shaken by the newly-unveiled 2018 World Chess Championship logo. The image, which shows two chequered bodies wrapped around each other with a chess board ...

Chess positions are written in algebraic notation, which denotes each piece (K=king, Q=queen, R=rook, B=bishop, N=knight, and no letter for pawns) and square position on the board (letters a to h from ...

Viswanathan Anand shares lead with Russian Sergey Karjakin. Anand has 5.5 points from nine games. Anand in best position to play Carlsen for World Championship. Viswanathan Anand proved his true ...

Indian prodigy Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa is in pole position to win the Polgar Challenge as the online chess event enters its final day. The 15-year-old from Chennai won three in a row before being ...

Endgame study by Prokes, 1944. White to play and win. RB Is there anything more headache-inducing than an endgame study? And the simpler the position, the more intense the pain. I think, after almost ...

Tamil Nadu'S R Vaishali maintained her pole position with her seventh victory on the trot in the Ram Ratna 42nd National Women's Challengers Chess Championship here on Tuesday. MUMBAI: Tamil Nadu'S R ...

World Champion Dommaraju Gukesh on Sunday made an amazing comeback to defeat World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen in Round 6 of the ongoing Norway Chess 2025 tournament. The win was Gukesh’s first-ever ...