Chess
Tech Mahindra Global Chess League
The classical (slow) world championship remains the single most prestigious title in chess, but the events drawing new sponsorship to…
Will chess be ‘solved’?
Elon Musk enjoys winding up chess players. In 2022, he posted on X that chess is ‘too simple to be…
Grand Chess Tour Finals
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa continued his formidable run of form by taking first place, and a $200,000 first prize, at the Grand…
Sinquefield Cup
For the third time in his career, Wesley So has won the elite Sinquefield Cup tournament in St Louis, the…
Clash of Generations
At the start of May, 14-year-old Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus became the youngest player in history to cross the symbolic 2700…
Helpmates
Participants at the Winton British Solving Championship face six rounds of fiendishly difficult chess problems. The problems have an exam-style…
