Kristy Ambrose has been writing professionally since 2010. She dabbles in various genres, but her favorites are fantasy and science fiction. She creates everything from fanfiction to serialized novels ...

Chess prodigy Beth Harmon, played by actress Anya Taylor-Joy, reads a chess pamphlet in Netflix's miniseries "The Queen Gambit." Netflix Netflix's "The Queen's Gambit" has inspired a surge of interest ...

Throughout human history, one game has remained a staple of cultures, played by kings, nobles, citizens, and peasants alike. The game we are talking about is over a millennium old, and today is played ...

The celebrated world of competitive chess is sustained by prodigious talent but shadowed by emotional strain. From Morphy to Naroditsky, the game reveals how genius and fragility often travel together ...

Krishna and Radha playing chaturanga. Source: Wikicommons/public domain The Gupta emperor Kumaragupta (r. 414-455 CE) founded the Nalanda mahavira (monastic university), which is regarded as the world ...

Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha, aged three years, seven months, and 20 days, is the youngest chess player to earn an official FIDE ...

Beyond the chess board lies two players and one victor––a chess match is only as good as its champion. This is certainly understood in the World Chess Hall of Fame’s newest exhibition, Clash for the ...

Hailing from Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar, Sarwagya is still in nursery school but holds a rapid rating of 1,572. He dethroned ...

NEW DELHI: In the long and storied history of the Chess World Cup, only two players have managed to lift the trophy twice. India’s very own five-time World Champion Vishwanathan Anand is one of them.

Magnus Carlsen is the odds-on favorite to retain his title as World Chess Champion in a showdown this month against Sergey Karjakin. Given how well the 25-year-old Norwegian is playing, that's no ...

A 10-year-old girl who started playing chess five years ago has made history by defeating a grandmaster, according to the International Chess Federation. Bodhana Sivanandan won against Peter Wells, a ...

Look out, there's another chess prodigy on the scene.At eight years, six months and 11 days, Ashwath Kaushik made history on Sunday by becoming the youngest player ever to beat a chess grandmaster in ...