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Sligo Chess Tournament continues to go from strength to strength, with big plans in place to grow the annual event even more in 2026. The 2025 Sligo Chess Tournament - the fourth year - takes place at ...

Gukesh Dommaraju is now the youngest-ever world champion, but that is just icing on the cake in India’s chess story. For the ‘golden generation’, 2024 was the year they did it all ...

Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi have caused a stir in the chess community after agreeing to share the World Blitz ...

The larger one is that India is today a bonafide chess powerhouse, a fecund ground for grandmasters (GMs) who are captivating ...

The 18-year-old beat defending champion Ding Liren 7.5-6.5 in their best-of-14 final in Singapore on Thursday after the Chinese player blundered in the final game. Draped in the Indian flag and ...

At just 18, Gukesh had embodied the English expression “poker face” throughout most of the 2024 World Chess Championship. However, when he realised Ding Liren had blundered by moving his rook to f2 in ...

Linsen Chai, 29, an exhibition designer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, said he had loathed chess when his father had encouraged him to learn the game as a child. But he was surprised by how ...

everybody expected teenage sensation Ruelle Canino to handily rule the girls’ side of the National Juniors Chess Championships. They were all mistaken. Delivering one of the most shocking ...

Gukesh, but he doesn't play the game for material gains but for that ... Even though technology is so advanced, there is still a lot to learn about chess. I strongly believe that the more you ...

“The result of the last game caused bewilderment ... Combined with Olympiad dominance, chess has returned to its cradle and the era of ‘Vishy’s children’ is truly upon us!” ...