Berlin — Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen was forced into a draw Monday by more than 143,000 people worldwide playing against him in a single, record-setting game. Billed as "Magnus ...

R Praggnanandhaa clinched the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2025, marking his first Grand Chess Tour victory after a thrilling blitz playoff. Despite drawing his final classical game ...

A chess grandmaster who is playing a single game against 140,000 people thinks the match is heading for a draw. The mega-match features undisputed world number one Norwegian Magnus Carlsen playing ...

MANILA, Philippines — One of the rapidly rising prodigies in the world of chess has been included in this year’s list of young stars in Asia. Filipino chess wunderkind Daniel Quizon was one of ...

Jim (JJ) Walsh’s first chess column in The Irish Times appeared on July 21st, 1955. On the front page of the newspaper there were reports that the price of a telegram was doubling and former ...

The Taliban have banned chess in Afghanistan, citing religious reasons, adding the game to a long list of pastimes and activities that are prohibited across the country. Citing fears that the game ...

The Taliban has banned Afghans from playing chess until it works out whether the game is compatible with Islamic law. The decision, announced by the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and ...

Taliban authorities have barred chess across Afghanistan until further notice over concerns it is a source of gambling, which is illegal under the government's morality law, a sports official said ...

The Asian Individual Chess Championships 2025 is set to begin with the open and women’s categories, being hosted in Al Ain, UAE, from 6 to 16 May 2025. (More Sports News) Featuring 150 of the ...

That followed a pre-Christmas outage of the CHESS system that crippled stock settlements. Analysts said the proposed measures created risk that the ASX’s cost growth next year would be higher ...

The En Passant Triumph has appeared in Destiny 2, and to obtain it you'll need to find and complete an easily missed chess puzzle. To be able to complete the puzzle, you'll need to have collected ...