FIDE director general Emil Sutovsky responded to Magnus Carlsen and leaders of his Freestyle Chess venture in a heated social ...

At WACA, Anand enlisted elite GMs like Poland’s Grzegorz Gajewski (for opening theories), Sandipan Chanda (mid-game prep), ...

2010 and 2013 – the record eight-time Masters holder compared Selby's strategic skills in snooker to Russia's celebrated chess icon Garry Kasparov. Like Kasparov analysing a chess board ...

In doing so, the teenager not only broke legend Garry Kasparov’s record to become chess’s youngest ... In December 2020, Anand partnered with WestBridge Capital to start WestBridge Anand Chess Academy ...

Niemann also called the chess world a “joke,” while player and streamer Alexandra Botez said on X that the game is “getting soft.” Former world champion Garry Kasparov made a pointed ...

Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand, who has had a role to play in Vaishali’s rise through the Westbridge Anand Chess Academy (WACA), posted on X: “Congratulations to Vaishali for taking bronze ...

who has shaped the careers of many at his Chess Gurukul academy. “When we were young, we didn’t feel we could compete at an international level. But now, children dream of becoming world ...

Chess players were beside themselves when Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi decided to end the FIDE championship in a tie. The 2024 FIDE World Blitz Championship was played on the night of New ...