'Future is here': Vishy lauds Gukesh

Photograph: Kind Courtesy Michal Walusza for FIDE/X Indian teenager D Gukesh (17) has become the youngest player ever to challenge for the World Chess Championship title. He clinched victory in......

Nepomniachtchi vs Ding: Chess awaits a new world champion!

IMAGE: Chess will get a new world champions as Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren face off. Photograph: Pavel Mikheyev/Reuters Chess will crown a new world champion when Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding......

Magnus Carlsen's Last Gambit

A title match requires months of preparation and pulling out of other events, putting together a team of seconds, etc. Carlsen just says he lacks the motivation to do this again. IMAGE: World......

Anand holds Kramnik to win 'No-Castling' Chess

IMAGE: India's Viswanathan Anand ponders a move during the ‘No Castling' Chess tournament, for the Sparkassen Trophy, in Dortmund. Photograph: Sparkassen Chess Trophy/Facebook India's......

No-Castling: Anand draws with Kramnik in second game

IMAGE: Viswanathan Anand played out a 39-move draw in an English Four Knights variation game with black pieces against Vladimir Kramnik in the second game of their four-game match for the......