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After six games, the 12-game World Chess Championship Match is now led, 4 games to 2, by 22-year-old Magnus Carlsen. This is a very important advantage, but reigning champion Viswanathan Anand is no stranger to winning from behind: he was able to turn...

Day three of the 2016 Sinquefield Cup was very peaceful, but not without some fireworks. Much to everyone’s surprise, Topalov blundered a simple tactic right out of the opening, but his opponent, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, did not find the most precise...

Defending champion Viswanathan Anand was caught off guard by a surprise opening from Magnus Carlsen of Norway Chennai : Defending champion Viswanathan Anand was caught off guard by a surprise opening from Magnus Carlsen of Norway as he played out a...

India to become the new Chess Grand Masters production hub? An old hand at the game of Shatranj (Chess), experts say that a slight tweaking of the national chess championship rules, increasing the prize money, engaging foreign coaches, corporate sponsorships...

“Gonna be a draw,” a grandmaster texted me as the setting sun cast a red tinge on the East River off lower Manhattan. It was around 5 p.m. on Thursday, and my attention was split between the light filtering through the masts of the tall ships at the...