An enduring feature of Indian elections is “resort politics” in which MLAs are shuttled off to safe houses to prevent poaching by rival outfits. A version of that is playing out in the chess world. At ...

Magnus Carlsen, the chess grandmaster who has become the public face of the game, was forced into a draw after an intense game played over 6 1/2 weeks — and it only took some 143,000 opponents working ...

Viswanathan Anand set up a summit clash with defending champion Levon Aronian of Armenia after two wins and a draw on the second day of preliminaries at the Chess 960 World Championship in Mainz.

German GM Martin Keymer was Freestyling in style, successively defeating the world’s two highest-rated players to capture the inaugural event of the new Freestyle Grand Slam in Wangels, Germany, last ...

Chess is a relatively simple game to learn but a very difficult one to master. Because the starting positions of the pieces are fixed, top players have relied on memorizing the "best" opening moves, ...

It could be the unpredictability of the starts in Chess 960, or just the fact that Carlsen needed to stamp his territory in a ...

Viswanathan Anand sets up a summit clash with the defending champion after two wins and a draw on the second day of preliminaries. Viswanathan Anand set up a summit clash with defending champion Levon ...