Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess, author Ben Mezrich explores every angle of the match where Niemann ...

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But my favourite part – which I think goes hand in hand with those who excel at chess – is her ambition. And ...

Hikaru Nakamura and Anish Giri have probably realized that they would need a bit of philosophical mindset to keep going and ...

The opening, a wild variant of Sicilian Defence, is favored by club players for its very straightforward plan of pushing the ...

Compatriot Magnus Carlsen, the world No 1, likely to play Erling Haaland has become a significant investor in a new world chess championship tour that is expected to star his fellow Norwegian Magnus ...

The Norwegian showcased his skills in the chess.com speed championship, but the US star and streamer was twice beaten Magnus Carlsen, the world No 1, visited central London last weekend and won the ...

The world’s number one chess player, Magnus Carlsen, won his fifth Speed Chess Championship (SCC) Finals. Carlsen, 35, banked $25,000 plus an additional split based on winning percentage by beating ...

American chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky died last year after suffering an abnormal heartbeat and had multiple drugs in his system at the time, according to a toxicology report that ruled the ...

Danny Rensch is at the vanguard of chess. He, alongside a few others, has helped to develop the sport from one which was played by the elites to a phenomenon that has exploded in recent years, ...