The Chess World Championship is designed to be the toughest test possible in the sport. The road to being world champion is a ...

Indian chess grandmaster D Gukesh's journey to the World Chess Championship is a tale of resilience and seizing opportunities ...

Viswanathan Anand says looking at Ding Liren's form and wondering if there could be a hint of exaggeration behind it is "nuts ...

Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand and Arjun Erigaisi explain the factors that make 18-year-old Gukesh a formidable player in ...

While Magnus Carlsen's absence from the World Chess Championship casts a shadow, the upcoming match between Ding Liren and D ...

Ahead of the Chess World Championship, let's break down the complex sport of chess in the simplest way possible.

Here’s a look back at the legendary grandmasters and their monumental wins that have defined chess history ahead of the World ...

Daniil Dubov was Magnus Carslen’s second for the World chess championship twice. So he has watched from the closest of quarters how a World title match takes shape.

Gukesh is considered a strong favourite to become only the second Indian after the legendary Viswanathan Anand to be crowned ...

Only one Indian has ever been world champion. No one has been world champion as a teenager (or at 20, or 21). Can Gukesh ...

The World Championships in chess have a storied history - dating back to 1886, although FIDE's version has existed since 1948 ...

His first glimpse of top-level chess was in November 2013, when, aged 7, he accompanied his father Rajnikanth to watch the FIDE World Championship match between Anand and Magnus Carlsen.