Nava Nalanda Alumni Association and Nava Nalanda Group of Schools came together to organise the first edition of the chess competition ...

Russian Grandmaster Sergey Karjakin is all set to launch an appeal against his six-month ban by Fide, the international chess federation. According to sports website insidethegames.com, Karjakin has ...

Off-line chess is all set to make a comeback in Jharkhand after a year. Chaibasa, the district headquarters of West Singhbhum, is hosting the Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee State Open Rapid and Blitz Ch...

Ties between Russia and Ukraine have traditionally been strong in chess. But the war threatens to destroy that relationship. The world federation has sanctioned Russia and Belarus but is itself in the...

The 44th Chess Olympiad will be organised in Chennai later this year, making it the second major global event of the sport to be held in India after the World Championship match in 2013. The event was...

World chess governing body FIDE on Wednesday suspended Russia and Belarus from all its tournaments until further notice due to the invasion of Ukraine, jeopardising the two countries' participatio...

Carlin’s email reads: “Sport reaches the hearts of people, bypassing the brain, and as such it can be used as an instrument of political persuasion. Countless examples exist of sports bein...

IPL players face 3-day quarantine Players and support staff will have to undergo a three-day hard quarantine in their hotel rooms before entering the team bubble in the IPL, according to the quaranti...

The All India Chess Federation (AICF) on Saturday said it will be bidding to host the 44th Chess Olympiad later this year after the prestigious event was moved out of Russia following its invasion of ...

Former Indian national rapid chess champion Anwesh Upadhyaya is one among several of his compatriots stuck in Ukraine, alone in his apartment and every bit scared. Upadhyaya, an International Master w...