She hasn’t exactly been dethroned, but Hungarian GM Judit Polgar’s reign as the ratings queen of women’s chess has finally come to an end after an astonishing 26 years of supremacy. Young Chinese ...

At the age of 17, Hou Yifan holds the prestigious title of grandmaster women's world chess champion. During her first visit to India for the Chess tournament to be held in Delhi this week we caught up ...

Leading the charge for the Pipers are R Praggnanandhaa, last season’s Player of the Season, and Hou Yifan, the reigning world no. 1 female player. Both were retained by the team after their ...

There is a new queen of chess. With a third-place finish (after tie-breaks) in the Tradewise Gibraltar tournament in Caleta, England, 20-year-old Hou Yifan has made a giant step forward. A prodigy of ...

GM Hikaru Nakamura has won the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival — one of the world’s most prestigious open events — for a third straight year, but the American star’s victory last week was hardly ...