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MANILA: "The Philippines is no one's chess piece. We are an independent country."
PARIS (Reuters) - Magnus Carlsen feels he's still better than the young generation of chess players, but the Norwegian great is ruling out a comeback at the classical world championship.
PARIS (Reuters) - Chess is getting ready to make its foray into Esports with teams recruiting top players ahead of this summer's Esports World Cup, hoping to attract new audiences as the game continues to grow in spectacular fashion.
Dr Mohd Hasanuddin Mohd Yusof spent six years researching across the region to revive this nearly lost Malay chess tradition
PARIS (Reuters) - Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky has died at the age of 88, International chess federation (FIDE) general director Emil Sutovsky told Reuters on Thursday.
PARIS (Reuters) - Freestyle Chess Grand Slam tour boss Jan Henric Buettner and all-time great Magnus Carlsen have called on International Chess Federation (FIDE) president Arkady Dvorkovich to resign after talks over an agreement about the new series fell through.
Defending champion Magnus Carlsen has caused a scandal at the World Rapid Chess Championship in New York over his choice of trousers.
Teenager Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest chess world champion after beating the defending champion Ding Liren of China in the final match of their series in Singapore.
(Reuters) - Chess great Magnus Carlsen will return to the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in New York after initially quitting following governing body FIDE's decision to bar him from a round for wearing jeans.
SINGAPORE: Newly crowned world chess king Gukesh Dommaraju said becoming a champion was a dream that was more than a decade in the making, as he underlined his ambition to strive for "greatness".
NEW DELHI: India's aspiring chess players and their parents woke up Friday (Dec 13) with big dreams after 18-year-old hometown hero Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest world champion.
India's chess star Gukesh Dommaraju returned to a hero's welcome in his home city on Monday after becoming the youngest world champion aged only 18.
(Reuters) - Chess great Magnus Carlsen quit the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in New York on Friday after governing body FIDE barred the Norwegian from participating in a round at the tournament for wearing jeans.
SINGAPORE: Indian teen prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju (pic) became the youngest undisputed world chess champion Thursday (Dec 12) after beating China's Ding Liren in the final match of their series in Singapore.
It will be a super few weeks of chess in Singapore as the country stages the World Chess Championship from Nov 25 to Dec 13 at Resorts World Sentosa (RWS).
Indian prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju broke new ground to reach the World Chess Championship and the 18-year-old is now hot favourite to win the title and make more history.
The clean cut hair has grown, his college kid’s hoodie is now a gold chain, and his politics have swerved hard right.
A top chess player was expelled from an event in Spain this week after being accused of cheating by using a phone during bathroom breaks between moves.
(Reuters) - Chess governing body FIDE's general assembly agreed to consider lifting parts of a ban on Russian and Belarusian players imposed after Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022, in a vote on Sunday in Budapest.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Monday that a decision by the general assembly of FIDE, the governing body of chess, to uphold a ban on Russian and Belarusian players was the result of Western and Ukrainian pressure.
