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Frenchman Maxime VachierLagrave (Elo 2737) and Iranian GM duo Parham Maghsoodloo (2712) and Amin Tabatabaei (2686) will not be short on motivation to provide serious challenge to top seed and world No. 4 Arjun Erigaisi (2799) in the Chennai Grandmasters chess tournament starting at Anna Centenary Library from Tuesday.

KOLKATA: City kid Anish Sarkar entered the record books by becoming the youngest rated chess player in history at just three years, eight months and 19 days. In doing so, he surpassed the previous record set by Tejas Tiwari, who had become the youngest Fide-rated player at five years.

Former World chess champion Vladimir Kramnik tried to create some flutter in the ninth round of the Chess Olympiad on Friday but the authorities dealt with the issue swiftly and restored normalcy.

Oleksandr Kamyshin spent more than a year as minister of strategic industries, overseeing Ukraine’s defence industry. He tells Askold Krushelnycky about his latest challenge

The world No 1 will lead Norway at the event in Hungary shortly after defeating Hans Niemann and Alireza Firouzja at the speed championship finals in Paris

Five-time world chess champion Viswanathan Anand isn't part of India's 2024 Chess Olympiad squad like in the last edition of the prestigious biennial FIDE tournament, but the Indian men's team may not feel his absence as much this time, considering how the likes of R Praggnanandhaa, D Gukesh, Vidit Gujrathi…

The London schoolboy defeated three GMs in successive games in Budapest and narrowly failed to achieve a world age record 2300 and a Fide Master title

The 33-year-old won the online CrunchLabs Masters, defeating Firouzja in the final, after previously eliminating the world No 1, Magnus Carlsen

This coming weekend, you could be part of a World record attempt just by playing the game