Magnus Carlsen faced off against former Norwegian national champion Frode Elsness in the opening round of the the 2025-26 ...

In a country still emerging from two years of war, the Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem (MOTJ) opened its doors this week to an ...

Checkmate, the Media Chess Club, welcomed a grandmaster chess champion on Tuesday night. Three-time U.S. Champion International Grandmaster Larry Christiansen visited Christiansen the group for an ...

Israel's greatest player, Boris Gelfand won’t feature as he has a long-standing conflict with the Israel Chess Association ...

Suneetha Wijesuriya, Woman FIDE Master and Instructor, conducted a highly successful Chess Coaching Camp, being the 500th Camp of the Anatoly Karpov Chess Club (AKCC), at the 3rd Annual National ...

Soviet chess grandmaster Boris Spassky, who was famously defeated in the so-called match of the century at the height of the Cold War, has died aged 88, the Chess Federation of Russia said Thursday.

Four of the five matches between Russian and former Soviet Grandmaster Anatoly Karpov and his compatriot Garry Kasparov are in the top ten world championship matches of all time as selected by ...

This game is considered the finest played by Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov. Each of the two produced some scintillating games, but there is no greater rivalry in chess history than theirs. Their ...

Viswanathan Anand became Asia’s third Grandmaster in 1988. Eugene Torre, the first from the continent to get that most important title for chess players, did it in 1974. He was also the first Asian to ...

Recently, the column delivered some insights into chess openings and the middle game. Each phase has had players who excelled in a superior fashion. After the middle game comes the ending. One name ...

KARACHI: Following her glorious victory against Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, Pakistan’s chess prodigy Mehak Maqbool revealed some interesting details about their friendly yet firm bout. While ...

KARACHI: National junior chess champion Mehak Maqbool defeated Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah in a friendly chess match on Saturday. Mehak, the Under-18 national junior chess champion, was ...