While D Gukesh’s ability to defend his World Chess Championship crown is being questioned, Indian Grandmaster Srinath Narayanan has come out in his defence.

Nadia Comaneci, the first to achieve a perfect 10 in gymnastics, was 217 days older than Suryavanshi when she won her first ...

At the age of 15 years and four months she became a “male” international grandmaster, breaking the record set by the iconic American 11th World Chess Champion Robert James “Bobby” Fischer.

Magnus Carlsen hated homework and blossomed when he no longer had to go to school. Today, he plays chess according to a new ...

chess had an ancillary reputation as the recreation of social misfits. Bobby Fischer was a national hero for wresting the world championship away from our cold war rivals, the Russians ...

Soviet chess world champion Boris Spassky has died at age ... when he lost his crown to the US grandmaster Bobby Fischer. The duel between the two chessboard giants became the symbol of the ...

The Professor of Economics sat down with FM to talk about how he met his wife, his forthcoming book, and the most memorable ...

In an ancient sport like chess, where every move has been analyzed down to the smallest detail, talk of revolution sounds almost heretical. However, a new modality is beginning to ...

“Usually, before a tournament, I will play even more and study the moves of grandmasters I admire such as Jose Raul Capablanca, Bobby Fischer and 17-time World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen ...

One of the best-known variants is Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess (proposed by Bobby Fischer in 1996 ... championed by former world champion Vladimir Kramnik and supported by Carlsen.

Other notable death in April include basketball Hall of Famer Dick Barnett, “Dennis the Menace” star Jay North, former ...