It should have been simple for Magnus Carlsen, or at least as simple as a top-tier chess game can be. When the world chess champion sat down across from 19-year-old American Hans Niemann at the ...

An 8-year-old chess prodigy made history as the youngest player to defeat a chess grandmaster. The boy, Aswath Kaushik, beat Jacek Stopa at a chess tournament in Switzerland. Kaushik, who was born in ...

A 10-year-old girl from London made history this week when she became the youngest female chess player to defeat a grandmaster, who is 50 years her senior. Bodhana Sivanandan, a chess prodigy from ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Bodhana Sivanandan, a 10-year-old from London, has made history at the 2025 British Chess Championships in Liverpool, becoming the youngest female player ever to beat a chess grandmaster.

Uzbekistan's teenage sensation Javokhir Sindarov carved his name into chess history, becoming the youngest player ever to win the Chess World Cup after outlasting China's Wei Yi in a nerve-wracking ...

Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest world chess champion Thursday when he beat champion Ding Liren in the final match of the World Chess Championship in Singapore. The 18-year-old phenom, who goes by ...

Chess originated nearly 1,500 years ago in northern India. This strategic marvel has conquered continents, inspired works of literature, facilitated diplomatic ties and, most recently, seized the ...

Bodhana Sivanandan won the 2025 British Chess Championships in Liverpool. A 10-year-old girl who started playing chess five years ago has made history by defeating a grandmaster, according to the ...