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During a blitz round of the European Women’s Blitz Chess Championship, a player quickly gained a huge advantage against a strong Ukrainian Woman International Master and even won an extra piece early ...

On December 16th throngs of fans waited outside Chennai airport to cheer Dommaraju Gukesh, the 18-year-old world chess champion, on his return to his home city. Mr Gukesh is the youngest ever person ...

The result is that it takes my opponents by complete surprise and creates total pandemonium in their minds. It freezes their ...

Gainesville schools celebrated a historic showing at the recently held 2023 Florida State Scholastic Chess Championship in Orlando. Teams from Oak Hall, Lincoln Middle School and Buchholz High School ...

She doesn’t always get the accolades of her great predecessors, such as Xie Jun and Hou Yifan, but the tenacious Chinese GM Ju Wenjun is carving out her own impressive chess legacy at the top of the ...

Chess may be the Game of Kings, but royalty could give way to machinery in the years to come. A recent study has found that artificial intelligence, when pitted in a tight game of chess, often resorts ...

"Chess is the least telegenic thing ever," said The Guardian, and BBC Two’s new elimination game show "Chess Masters: The Endgame" is "so dull it's almost unwatchable". Host Sue Perkins does her best ...