Chess: A World Cup for India to make its own

The tournament features 206 chess players from over 80 countries, with the host nation accounting for a little over one-tenth ...

This Bay Area prodigy helped pioneer the digital world of chess. It came to torment him

The 29-year-old chess grandmaster, who died this month, brought the game into a new streaming era, with sometimes toxic ...

Did Cheating Accusations Have Anything to Do With the Death of a Chess Grandmaster?

Daniel Naroditsky, a top American player with an online following, was found dead in Charlotte, N.C., after talking about ...
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Tyler, The Creator Competed In The Inaugural Faye Webster Chess Invitational

Last year, singer-songwriter Faye Webster held her first-ever YoYo Invitational event to Berkeley. Over the weekend, Webster ...
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India's Chess Renaissance: A New Era in Sports Under Modi's Leadership

Sport in India has transformed into a national movement under PM Narendra Modi's leadership, highlighted during the FIDE World Cup in Goa. Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya praised initiatives like ...

Critic of chess grandmaster found dead was caught up in a cheating scandal of his own

Vladimir Kramnik, who denied using bathroom breaks to look up chess moves in a 2006 title match and was cleared of wrongdoing ...