C HESS IS the sort of deep and rewarding game that you can spend an enjoyable lifetime failing to master. But even ardent fans might concede that, as a spectacle, watching two players think for long ...

In the first big chess tournament of 2025, the best players in the world are all closely bunched together near the top of the standings of the Tata Steel Chess Masters in Wijk Aan Zee, Netherlands.

World champion Dommaraju Gukesh moved into the joint lead of the Tata Steel Chess Masters in Wijk Aan Zee, Netherlands, with a win in Round 7 against Pentala Harikrishna. Neither R Praggnanandhaa ...

There was almost a sense of inevitability to the World rapid chess championship that concluded in New York on Sunday (India time). Given the astonishing year that India has had in chess ...

R Praggnanadhaa played out a solid draw with world champion D Gukesh in the all-Indian top-of-the-table clash in the eighth round of the Tata Steel Masters on Sunday in Wijk Aan Zee, Netherlands.

Dommaraju Gukesh continued his unbeaten run as the chess world champion, but he really had to earn his draw against Nodirbek Abdusattorov in round 6 of the Tata Steel Chess Masters in Wijk Aan Zee ...