Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky dies at 29, shocking global chess communityGrandmaster Daniel Naroditsky died unexpectedly Sunday at age 29, the Charlotte Chess Center confirmed Monday. The U.S. chess champion, pop...
21 Oct, 2025, 02.28 AM IST
Anand Mahindra hails Gukesh's composure after Carlsen's table slam: 'His silence roared louder'Industrialist Anand Mahindra lauded Indian chess prodigy D Gukesh. He praised Gukesh's composed win against Magnus Carlsen at the Norway Ch...
03 Jun, 2025, 06.29 PM IST
Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen faces showdown against 'the world.' Will it end in a draw?Magnus Carlsen is currently engaged in a unique online chess match against 140,000 players worldwide, a game that may surprisingly end in a...
17 May, 2025, 11.02 AM IST
Gukesh Dommaraju's triumph heralds '83 moment' for chessGukesh Dommaraju's World Chess Champion title has boosted chess's popularity in India. Livestream records have been set, and platforms like...
01 Jan, 2025, 06.10 PM IST
Eight-year-old Indian-origin boy becomes youngest to beat grandmasterEight-year-old Ashwath Kaushik from Singapore becomes the youngest player to defeat a grandmaster in classical chess, breaking the record p...
21 Feb, 2024, 10.55 AM IST
R Praggnanandhaa surpasses Viswanathan Anand to become India's No.1, following victory over Ding LirenThe 18-year-old defeated China's Liren with the black pieces at the 2024 Tata Steel Chess Tournament on Wednesday and surpassed the legenda...
17 Jan, 2024, 11.14 AM IST
Chess rocked by a fresh cheating controversyThe latest episode concerns Hikaru Nakamura, one of chess's top stars, and Vladimir Kramnik, who was world champion from 2000 to 2007. Last...
26 Dec, 2023, 11.22 PM IST
American chess prodigy Niemann denies allegations of using 'vibrating sex toy' to beat world champion CarlsenIn a recent interview with Piers Morgan, Niemann expressed his disappointment at being accused of cheating following his victory, stating, ...
27 Sep, 2023, 05.36 PM IST
Cheating in chess ain't so black & whiteOn October 4, the first day of the 2022 US Chess Championship, Chess.com released a 72-page report detailing an internal investigation of g...
22 Oct, 2022, 10.55 PM IST
Indian chess ace Harika among players who were sent sexually abusive mailThe Indian Grandmaster, ranked 11 in the world, said she was not aware of it until the last day and that the organisers of the Grand Swiss ...
12 Feb, 2022, 11.06 AM IST
Meet Abhimanyu Mishra, the 12-year-old boy who became youngest Grandmaster in chess historyThe prodigy scored his third GM norm in Budapest, Hungary.
01 Jul, 2021, 08.23 PM IST
'It's time to move on and get closure.' Vishy puts an end to row over Nikhil Kamath's misdemeanour in charity chess eventAnand tweeted a statement by Chess.com.
16 Jun, 2021, 05.31 PM IST
Nikhil Kamath admits to foul play against Viswanathan AnandChess.com has banned Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath for violating its fair play rules while playing against Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand...
15 Jun, 2021, 04.19 PM IST
Billionaire Nikhil Kamath apologises for taking help from 'people analysing the game, computers' to win charity chess match opposite VishyThe Zerodha founder said that he didn't realise all the confusion that can get caused due to this.
15 Jun, 2021, 12.23 PM IST
If cheating for charity, write the cheque, mateCrime against chess must pay! Especially to raise Covid relief funds
14 Jun, 2021, 11.14 PM IST
Checkmate COVID: Anand and 4 other GMs to play exhibition matches to raise COVID relief fundAny player who has a Chess.com blitz or FIDE standard rating of under 2000 can play with former world champion Viswanathan Anand by donatin...
11 May, 2021, 11.35 AM IST
Viswanathan Anand, Yuzvendra Chahal take part in online chess event, raise Rs 8.8 lakh for waste pickers communityThe fund raised from the event will be donated to the Chief Minister's Fund.
27 Apr, 2020, 03.49 PM IST