Pranav Venkatesh, the World Junior Chess Champion, has his sights set on becoming the World Chess Champion. The 18-year-old from Chennai balances chess with academics and enjoys cricket.

As a result, he was the joint leader with Ian Nepomniachtchi. For Gukesh, who recently earned global acclaim by becoming the World Chess Champion, 3.5 points from 11 rounds was a poor reading. But ...

Hans Niemann has a dream. He wants to make American chess great again. More importantly, the 21-year-old wants to follow in the footsteps of the legendary Bobby Fischer, and become only the second man ...

India's Arjun Erigaisi made a terrific start to the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour Paris leg by winning the opening two rounds in style. The best part was beating World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen in round ...

hall meeting in Miramar, Florida, last Friday to hear the prime minister of Jamaica, Andrew Holness. I am not Jamaican, but I pay attention to Jamaican politics because I met my wife in the 70s ...

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Chess world champion D Gukesh had a winless run at the first leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025 in Weissenhaus but that hasn’t dampened his spirits and the 18-year-old Indian Grandmaster ...

Kenya’s love for chess is on full display at Mang’u High School, where over 7,000 players have gathered for the ongoing Kenya National Chess Championship, the largest tournament in the country’s ...

Responsive chess web GUI to play against the Stockfish 16 chess engine. Multiple web GUI implementations have also been included. A responsive web-based chess app and graphical user interface (GUI) ...

American chess player Hans Niemann has withdrawn from the upcoming Paris leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025 just hours after being notified about the implementation of new anti-cheating ...

D Gukesh, the world chess champion, struggled in the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour's opening leg but remains optimistic for the Paris leg. Despite a challenging format, Gukesh aims to improve.

Since then, Marchand, 13, has won many chess tournaments across Canada and competed in matches all over the world. In December, Halifax's Marchand became the youngest player from the Maritimes ...