Magnus Carlsen supports 18-year-old Indian prodigy D Gukesh ahead of the World Chess Championship, predicting pressure but ...

India’s Arjun Erigaisi is currently the fastest rising star in world chess. The 21-year-old has even tacitly signalled a ...

Magnus Carlsen’s long reign as the World chess champion began in India, 11 years ago in Chennai. After claiming the first of ...

Ding was just 16 years old in 2009 when he became China’s youngest-ever chess champion, which helped him earn the title of a ...

Days after the Carlsen-Caruana face-off, Gukesh will bid to become the youngest-ever world chess champion when he faces Ding in a 14-game classical match, starting on November 25. Ding has ...

U.S. national champion GM Fabiano Caruana and U.S. women’s national titleholder IM Carissa Yip successfully defended their ...

Fabiano Caruana, Nepomniachtchi and compatriots R. Praggnanandhaa and Vidit Gujrathi. Gukesh had become the youngest to win ...

This record is held jointly by Bobby Fischer, who won every time he competed, scored his first victory at age 14, and whose total included his 11/11 “picket fence” in 1963-64; and by Samuel Reshevsky, ...

Gukesh only managed draws against all the three players who finished right below him in the standings -- Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura and Ian Nepomniachtchi -- but that was indication of Gukesh's ...