The 14th game also became iconic due to Gukesh’s reaction, when he spotted Liren’s blunder at the end-game. It was of pure ...

Viswanathan Anand had only hoped that his ward would play the World Chess Championship one day, winning it by setting a new ...

Vincent Keymer was one of D Gukesh’s seconds at the recent World Championship, where the Indian GM beat Ding Liren to script ...

Chinese chess grandmaster Wei Yi has lauded the fierce competitive spirit of India’s rising stars, Gukesh and Praggnanandhaa, ...

D Gukesh came face to face with world No 1 Magnus Carlsen for the first time since he was crowned world champion in December, ...

Gukesh had been unbeaten in 12 games since triumphing over Ding Liren of China in the World Championship in Singapore in mid-December. He had white pieces, too, going into the dec ...

“There’s always talk with India,” Sutovsky had told select Indian media on the sidelines of the chess World Championship in Singapore in November. The dates are already announced by FIDE ...

Indian GM Arjun Erigasi's search for a first win in the Tata Steel Masters ended with a stunning point over the in-form Nodirbek Abdusattorov of Uzbekistan in round 12. Erigaisi outplayed Nodirbek ...

D Gukesh continued his rapid rise as the 18-year-old became the new India's no.1 chess player in the ... China's Ding Liren to clinch the world title in Singapore in December last year.

Magnus Carlsen questioned the validity of classical chess as a measure of skill, favoring rapid chess. Gukesh acknowledged ...

Freestyle chess, by randomising the starting point of the game, destroys this advantage of memory and pattern recognition; it ...