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Chess: Garry Kasparov still has it at 61 as he holds his own against the US elite
The former world champion scored 4.5/9 in the 9LX tournament and also revealed new details about his 1997 match with the IBM Deep Blue supercomputer Garry Kasparov, who many consider the all-ti...
Chess: Fabiano Caruana, world No 2, wins fourth US Championship title
Caruana showed his clear superiority in the open event at St Louis, while Carissa Yip won her first eight games in the women’s championship Fabiano Caruana, the world No 2, retained his natio...
Chess: England gains new grandmaster as Ameet Ghasi qualifies at age 37
The Birmingham amateur achieved his title in Norway after years of trying, while Jonah Willow, 21, became the latest from the young generation to score a GM norm Ameet Ghasi became England’s ...
Carlsen struggles amid controversy at $1m Global Chess League in London
The world No 1 lost to Firouzja in round two and although he won the return game, his team failed to reach the final, in which Triveni Continental Kings face PBG Alaskan Knights The world No 1...
Magnus Carlsen: ‘Play chess against Mo Salah? I would love that’
The football-mad world No 1 is in London playing for a $1m prize fund and despite dominating the chess world says he has never played the perfect game One small measure of how Magnus Carlsen ha...
Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura and the chess elite now playing in London
Eight of the world top 12 are competing in the Global Chess League at Friends House, Euston, from 3-12 October, with spectator tickets bookable online There is a unique opportunity to watch the...
Chess: India win double gold as new generation dominates at Olympiad
India won the Open and Women’s Olympiads in Budapest, while for the first time in history no European team reached the podium in either event India’s domination of the 188-team Budapest Oly...
Chess: India win every match at Olympiad as US and England trail
With three rounds to go, India have won all eight of their matches in Budapest without loss of a game, while the top seeded US team is fifth and England 17th India are fast becoming the clear N...
Chess: England seeded eighth as Carlsen targets gold at Budapest Olympiad
The world No 1 will lead Norway at the event in Hungary shortly after defeating Hans Niemann and Alireza Firouzja at the speed championship finals in Paris Magnus Carlsen, the world No 1, comp...
Chess players, from orbiting cosmonauts to the Wu-Tang Clan – in pictures
An incredible collection of photographs documenting the intersection of chess and culture is published by FUEL, in the year FIDE (the International Chess Federation) celebrates its 100th annivers...
Chess: Ethan Pang, nine, beats three grandmasters but misses 2300 rating
The London schoolboy defeated three GMs in successive games in Budapest and narrowly failed to achieve a world age record 2300 and a Fide Master title Ethan Pang, the nine-year-old London schoo...
Chess: Alireza Firouzja wins Sinquefield Cup unbeaten and jumps to world No 5
The Iran-born Frenchman, 21, scored 6/9 to win in St Louis, half a point clear of the US champion and world No 3, Fabiano Caruana Alireza Firouzja, the Iran-born Frenchman, is a rekindled talen...
Chess: Carlsen and Niemann impress as Paris grudge rematch approaches
The pair will meet early next month for the first time across the board since the 2022 Sinquefield Cup, where their game sparked cheating allegations and a $100 million lawsuit Magnus Carlsen, ...
Chess: Hans Niemann closes on world top 20 as US star impresses in London
The ambitious American leads narrowly after six games in his five-day match against the England No 1, Nikita Vitiugov, which includes classical, rapid and blitz sections Hans Niemann, the contr...
Sports quiz of the week: heroes, history, medals and meltdowns at the Olympics
Have you been watching the football, athletics, golf, basketball, hockey, wrestling, canoeing, cricket and rugby? • World records quiz: who went highest and longst? Continue reading...
Chess: Carlsen loses in 23 moves but beats Ding and wins Titled Tuesday
The world No 1 arrived at the World Team Rapid and Blitz jetlagged and lost to Richard Rapport but then beat the world champion Since abdicating his world crown last year, Norway’s world cham...
Boy, 15, becomes youngest British chess grandmaster
Shreyas Royal, whose family was granted visa after appeal by Rachel Reeves, aspires to become world chess champion by 21 A 15-year-old chess prodigy has become the youngest British grandmaster....
Chess: Yagiz Erdogmus, 13, on the verge of 2600 and closing on world age record
The Turkish teen is poised to achieve the landmark rating at September’s 193-nation chess Olympiad in Budapest Yagiz Erdogmus is not yet a name in the same league as the quartet of Indian and...
Chess: Vachier-Lagrave wins $300,000 event while Firouzja loses in nine moves
The 33-year-old won the online CrunchLabs Masters, defeating Firouzja in the final, after previously eliminating the world No 1, Magnus Carlsen Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the $300,000 CrunchLab...
Chess: Caruana equals Carlsen’s record as Kasparov criticises world title match
Fabiano Caruana, the world No 3 and US champion, won the Zagreb Rapid/Blitz with a record-equalling total of 27/36, and was sure of first prize with five rounds to spare Fabiano Caruana, the wo...