India has been the nation to beat in international chess since 2024, when the nation’s men and women teams won double gold at the Budapest Olympiad, while Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest ever ...

LIPPSTADT (Germany), April 5 (Reuters) - Hussain Besou was just four when he started asking his father to teach him chess, hovering around the board as he played in the evenings in the Middle East ...

LIPPSTADT (Germany) (Reuters) - Hussain Besou was just four when he started asking his father to teach him chess, hovering around the board as he played in the evenings in the Middle East until he ...

LIPPSTADT (Germany), April 5 (Reuters) - Hussain Besou was just four when he started asking his father to teach him chess, hovering around the board as he played in the evenings in the Middle East ...

Strange things happen in Hamburg all the time. On the second weekend in January, at the Brahms-Kontor building — an Art Deco marvel in the city centre — Germany’s highest level of competitive team ...

Germany's men head to the European Team Championship of chess in Georgia with the wind in their sails. A rising star and a surprise late bloomer offer the European country hope but India remain a ...

On February 28, 2022, FIDE granted permission to individual chess players representing Russia and Belarus to play in international tournaments under a neutral status and announced that it would not ...

In competitive chess, where the clash of queens and bishops usually eclipses cultural warfare, a teenage girl has found herself at the center of Germany’s latest front in the debate over transgender ...

Vincent Keymer shines as one of the most brilliant young talents in the contemporary chess panorama. The player is not only the youngest grandmaster in Germany but also the one who ascended the ...

Last month, Matthias Blübaum did something no other German chess player had in 35 years by qualifying for the World Championship Candidates Tournament. The 28-year-old did so by coming second at the ...

He was one of the game’s greatest tacticians, equally at home on offense and defense in the most complicated situations. He was masterful at disarming a volatile, unpredictable opponent, and he held ...