The weight of the world title can break even the strongest of players. For 19-year-old D. Gukesh, the pressure recently reached a visible breaking point.

Gukesh Dommaraju paused in the middle of the Prague Masters to apologise to fans, the moment felt unusually raw and e.

There are many chess robots, most of which require the human player to move the opposing pieces themselves, or have a built-in mechanism that can slide the opposing pieces around to their new ...

Indian Grandmaster Nihal Sarin has responded after a tense moment during an online match triggered a controversy. The incident took place during a Titled Tuesday game on the Take Take Take app, where ...

London, Feb. 27 (SANA) Syrian chess player Rami Talab finished third (tied for second place) in the blitz category at the 2026 Isle of Wight Chess Tournament in the United Kingdom. Talab, 12, scored 7 ...

The incident happened during TakeTakeTake’s Titled Tuesday event, where Sarin and Armenia's Emin Ohanyan were involved in a very tense endgame battle.

Doha, Qatar: The second edition of the Ramadan Blitz Chess Championship, organized by the Qatar Chess Association and the Doha Youth Center, will begin Thursday, with the participation of 70 players.

The final round of a European blitz championship brings exhaustion, time trouble, and nonstop pressure. Positions swing from winning to lost and back again as both players miss chances and fight for ...

A toxicology report indicates chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky, 29, had multiple drugs in his system when he was found dead at his Charlotte, North Carolina, home on Oct. 19. Authorities have not ...

American chess grandmaster Daniel “Danya” Naroditsky’s cause of death has been attributed to a lethal drug cocktail, just three months after the prodigy died suddenly at age 29. The World Chess ...

Dec 28 (Reuters) - Magnus Carlsen pushed away a camera after losing to Vladislav Artemiev at the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in Qatar, the latest example of the former world ...

This was one game he couldn’t win. Daniel Naroditsky, one of the world’s greatest chess players, was a child prodigy who went on to become America’s greatest ambassador for the sport — before baseless ...