Rouda Essa Alserkal has been appointed as a Women Grandmaster by the International Chess Federation, making her the first Emirati and Gulf player to receive this prestigious title.

The Indian GM – on the cusp of 2700 Elo – hasn’t had a full-time coach since 2021. There appears to have been a change on that front since this year along with a fresh focus on playing more classical ...

How times change. Back in the day, it was this disdain for authorities and scorn for socially-accepted etiquettes and behavior that made Samay the game-changing chess streamer. Here’s how the Pied ...

You can either volley, play off a bounce or let the ball ricochet off tempered glass walls before you hit it. If your return hits the wall first, it’s out. The fuzzy ball looks like a tennis ...

In a world filled with sketchy stratagems and bad moves in every direction, the grandmasters of chess stand apart. There are fewer than 2,000 grandmasters worldwide. They play the “royal game” at the ...

Magnus Carlsen may be the best chess player in the world, but the Norwegian has ruled out a return to the classical World Chess Championship. Carlsen, a five-time world champion, last won the ...

Maybe that’s the fact that I’ve messed up a lot of winning games but lately I haven’t been enjoying chess very much,” Nakamura told ... however, was far from easy, and he only complicated things for ...

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After Garry Kasparov and Viswanathan Anand, it’s Magnus Carlsen’s turn to face off against the world in what could end up become the biggest game ever in chess history. Carlsen has been reigning ...

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