The Queen’s Gambit impact When Netflix released a mini-series titled The Queen’s Gambit, few would have thought that it have such an impact. Beginning in the mid-1950s and proceeding into...

Indian Grandmaster Pentala Harikrishna held world No. 1 and world champion Magnus Carlsen in the fourth round of the preliminary stage of the Champions Chess Tour Airthings Masters online chess champi...

Thirtythree years ago, the world junior chess championship win had motivated Viswanathan Anand to scale greater heights. Now, in 2020, the five-time world champion hopes India’s Chess Olympiad t...

Grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi, the India captain for the Fide Online Chess Olympiad, believes that youngsters like Nihal Sarin and Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa would give his team the X-factor in the tourna...

Chess has seen a surfeit of online competitions in the rapid and blitz formats in the last three months owing to the worldwide lockdown. Viswanathan Anand, in fact, led India at the Online Nations Cu...

He’s all of seven, but he’s already made a big move in life.Watching cartoon channels has taken a backseat for Adhiraj Mitra, a Class II boy of Loyola School and Jharkhand’s youngest internation...

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Viswanathan Anand was a distraught man on Tuesday. Anand, who was in the running for a slot in the Grand Chess Tour Finals, saw his chances blowing apart, after a heart-breaking loss to Dutch No. 1 An...

Thursday was a busy day for Magnus Carlsen. In town — his maiden visit to Calcutta — for the Tata Steel Chess India Rapid & Blitz, the world chess champion attended the mandatory draw of lots ...

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...