Five-year-old Delhi chess prodigy Aarini Lahoty has become India’s youngest female FIDE-rated player, inspiring a new ...

At the 2025 British Chess Championships, 10-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan, a British girl of Indian descent, made history by becoming the youngest female chess player ever to defeat a Grandmaster. She ...

The chess world is waking up to a new phenomenon called Sandbagging, in which an opponent deliberately loses to lower-ranked opponents, and this ends up destroying the reputation of the game.

How do you remain grounded when you achieve stardom at a very young age? We could not resist asking this question to Indian chess grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa, who chooses his words as carefully as he ...

Unsurprisingly, Capablanca is one of her favourite players, while Carlsen, who has become a reference point for most young ...