There are whispers that purists have found themselves checkmated by the decision to have Rajinikanth release a teaser video of the 44th Fide Chess Olympiad that is scheduled to begin in India — ...

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...

From football to boxing to tennis to chess, sportspersons from Ukraine and beyond have raised their voice in protest against Russian military operations in East European country. Some have been scathi...

Chess and mathematics go back a long way if you go by the famous story of the maharaja and his courtier, the inventor of Chaturanga, the Sanskrit name for chess. This is a story that has travelled the...

Viswanathan Anand, a five-time world chess champion and national icon, spoke to The Telegraph the other evening.Few mega achievers, by the way, are as modest as Anand. Little wonder, then, that he has...