'People still ask, 'Chess is fine, but what do you really do?'': Arjuna Awardee Vantika Agrawal
Vantika Agrawal, inspired by chess as a child, became a double gold medallist at the 2024 Chess Olympiad and recently ...
Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry ...
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NFL players are turning to an unlikely hobby to improve their game: Chess
If you scrunch your eyes up just as an offensive line sets for a play, the outlines of the players look like chess pieces ...
Bored with chess, the world’s top player wants to remake the game
Chess grand master Magnus Carlsen is promoting a new tour that scrambles the game’s rules — and has prompted criticism from ...
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How Jan Henric Buettner tried to make the sport more interesting with Freestyle Chess
Story continues below this ad “Chess was a sport I had initially played when I was in elementary school. And then, I got back ...
Why Gukesh’s winless run at Weissenhaus in Freestyle Chess is nothing to worry about
Freestyle chess demands that Gukesh fights the habit of calculation and preparation, something he has aced while becoming ...
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NFL players are turning to an unlikely hobby to improve their game: Chess
It is an old, well-worn cliché in American football that the sport is simply chess played on a field, with its complex strategies used to unlock an opponent’s defense or stifle its offense.
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Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
In terms of popularity, chess in the Soviet Union was akin to the NFL in the US. “It was more than just a kind of sport,” says Sosonko. “Chess in Russia was a kind of religion. It was much ...