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Chess is now an esport as Esports World Cup adds the 1,500 year-old game to 2025 event, calls it 'the perfect example of how games evolve'

And Magnus Carlsen is "thrilled" to be on board.

PC Gamer

Teenage prodigy Gukesh D defeats Ding Liren to become youngest world chess champion

Eighteen-year-old Indian prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju has become the new world chess champion, winning the final game of the title match after a dramatic blunder from the reigning champ, China’s Ding Liren.

The Conversation

After 20 years at the top of chess, Magnus Carlsen is making his next move

Few chess players have produced the magic commodity which separates Norway’s Magnus Carlsen from any of his peers: celebrity

The Independent UK

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Magnus Carlsen: ‘Play chess against Mo Salah? I would love that’

The football-mad world No 1 is in London playing for a $1m prize fund and despite dominating the chess world says he has never played the perfect game

The Guardian - UK

Australia’s corporate watchdog is suing our largest stock exchange. What’s going on?

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is unusual in the world of finance.

The Conversation

Soul, psychedelia and sensuality: Minnie Riperton’s 20 best songs – ranked!

Fifty years on from Riperton’s biggest album, Perfect Angel, we look back at the joyous, octave-jumping oeuvre that turned her from backing singer to pop star

The Guardian - UK

A guide to harmonica blues in five essential albums

Blues just wouldn’t be the same without the wailing of the harp. Here we celebrate the people who blew the hardest

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Chess: Carlsen wins in Casablanca as new variant tests historic skills

The world No 1 identified most of the six positions from previous world championships and exploited Vishy Anand’s unfamiliarity with a classic from Havana 1889

The Guardian - UK

Chess: England seniors score triple European gold and eye world titles

England over-50s edged out Italy and Hungary on tie-break, while England over-65s shone at the European senior championships in Slovenia

The Guardian - UK

Play.Works Moves Forward With Chess.com VOD App

Matches, original shows and instructional programs to be featured

Broadcasting & Cable

Chennai GM Chess Championship | Anti-cheating measures in chess should be stricter, says Levon Aronian

Grandmasters discuss need for anti-cheating measures in Chess at Chennai Championship.

The Hindu

Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann tells Piers Morgan he did not use sex toy to cheat during tournament

The 20-year-old told Piers Morgan that the allegations were ‘disheartening’

Evening Standard

Gukesh excited about the Asian Games, feels India has a fair chance

Excited for his first Asian Games, D. Gukesh is optimistic about India's chances in chess. He recently had a camp with Boris Gelfand and is looking forward to watching other sports. He had a tough time in the rapid section of the Tata Steel Chess India tournament, but was pleased…

The Hindu

Chess prodigy R Praggnanandhaa along with his parents meet PM Modi

18-yr-old Chess prodigy Praggnanandhaa, along with his parents, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi and thanked him for words of encouragement.

The Hindu

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Dynamite News

Chess World Cup silver medallist Praggnanandhaa returns to rousing welcome in Chennai

Indian chess grandmaster Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, who won a silver medal in FIDE World Cup 2023 in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Wednesday received a rousing welcome on his arrival at the Chennai Airport. Read further on Dynamite News:

Evening Standard

Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann cleared of using sex toy to help him cheat

Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann has been cleared of cheating following claims that he used a sex toy to receive wireless signals against world champion Magnus Carlsen.

The Week

The Week Unwrapped: Trans chess, goalkeepers and twitching

Olly Mann and The Week delve behind the headlines and debate what really matters from the past seven days. With Emma Smith, Julia O’Driscoll and Harriet Marsden.

The Week

Chess and trans rights: another pawn in the culture war?

The English Chess Federation (ECF) has said that it will not enforce restrictions on transgender people’s involvement in the game, in defiance of new rules introduced by chess’s international governing body.

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PC Gamer

An online 'Bullet Chess' championship is drawing big cash and big names

The fastest chess variant there is goes harder than ever.

Daily Mirror

Chess master accused of cheating using sex toy has £78m lawsuit dismissed

World-ranked chess player Hans Moke Niemann had a lawsuit against grandmaster Magnus Carlsen dismissed in the latest twist to a cheating scandal that has gripped the sport

Birmingham Post

Lincoln cyber security provider Cyberlab Consulting sold to tech firm Chess

Cyberlad founder Ryan Bradbury has joined Chess’s team as part of the deal, taking on the role of chief technology office

Multichannel News

Anthem’s Game Plus Checks Into Chess With Three-Hour Block

Signs programming partnership with Chess.com

Daily Record

Dumfries Musical Theatre Company set to perform Chess musical - at last

The show has been postponed for three years due to the coronavirus pandemic but the stars will finally take to the stage in May

AAP

Share market operator probed for bungled system upgrade

Corporate watchdog ASIC is investigating Australian share market operator ASX for potential breaches after a botched overhaul of its transaction system.

Sports Illustrated

Hans Niemann Files $100M Lawsuit Over Chess Cheating Allegations

The 19-year-old grandmaster is suing Chess.com, rival Magnus Carlsen and others.

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