Magnus Carlsen will headline the first Total Chess World Championship Tour pilot in Budapest in November. Here is everything ...

Elena Mishra, a four-year-old chess prodigy from Odisha, has made history by becoming the youngest female player to achieve ...

Hot on the heels of the FIDE World Championship that saw Dommaraju Gukesh crowned (classical) chess champion of the world comes FIDE's World Championship for the two faster versions of the sport: ...

PUNE: Former women’s world champion Alexandra Kosteniuk believes the rise of rapid and blitz chess has not diminished the ...

The family is now planning a visit to Amritsar to pay obeisance at the Golden Temple and perform sewa in gratitude for the achievement.

It was a mixed day for India to start the World Blitz Championship as Rameshbabu Vaishali dominated the women's section to lead the standings after day 1 but no Indian man qualified for the knockout ...

The 58-year-old grandmaster finished level on 10 points with Avital Boruchovsky and Michael Klenburg but took the title on ...

Praggnanandhaa won his first Rapid & Blitz title at the 2026 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz, hosted by the Saint Louis Chess Club as the first U.S. leg of the Grand Chess Tour (GCT). The Indian grandmaster ...

The FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships is scheduled to begin on Friday (December 26), and all eyes will be on World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen. A new generation of super-GMs is expected to rise ...

Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi have caused a stir in the chess community after agreeing to share the World Blitz Championship title earlier this week. Tuesday’s final in New York was locked at ...