Chess World Cup: Diptayan Ghosh, who once took a 2-year break to work in a bank, beats 2-time world championship contender Ian Nepomniachtchi

Within an hour of the defeat, the Russian was seen checking out of the hotel. His loss to the Indian grandmaster was the ...
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For the best chess players in the world, the queen isn’t the most important piece – it’s a supercomputer

Kenneth Rogoff, a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is professor of economics and public policy at Harvard University. For centuries, chess has been a metaphor for war in myth ...

FIDE Chess World Cup 2025: Why did defending champion Magnus Carlsen decide not to play in Goa?

The current world No. 1, Magnus Carlsen is considered by many to be the greatest chess player in history. But to the disappointment of fans, he won't be in action at the FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 in ...
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There will soon be a new world chess champion, but it won’t be the world’s best player

The chess world will have a new world champion soon, but for many fans the legitimacy of the title will be questionable. Magnus Carlsen of Norway, who has been the world champion for a decade, decided ...