The event showcased students' ability to strategize and apply critical thinking skills while they battled for a checkmate. Students from École Secondaire Highwood High School, École Secondaire Senator ...

AFTER two weekends of challenging, exciting, and power-packed moves on the chessboard, Keron Sandiford, a former Junior Chess Champion, has emerged as the winner of the 2025 National Open Chess ...

Taliban authorities have barred chess across Afghanistan until further notice over concerns it is a source of gambling, which is illegal under the government's morality law, a sports official said ...

Popular Twitch streamer DrLupo says he’s willing to pay for the next PogChamps tournament after admitting to cheating in one of the chess series’ online competitions. In April 2025 ...

In an ancient sport like chess, where every move has been analyzed down to the smallest detail, talk of revolution sounds almost heretical. However, a new modality is beginning to gain ground ...

In another match, D. Gukesh fought against Bogdan-Daniel Deac and secured a draw. Asian Individual Chess Championships 2025 Seshadri Srija soared to her third consecutive victory, dispatching ...

What begins as a slow trickle – locals looking to devour the latest books, and students using the computer lab – turns into a large diverse group of young and old alike competing in a free local chess ...

FORT SMITH, Ark. — In Fort Smith, a quiet revolution is unfolding—not in classrooms or on sports fields, but across black-and-white checkered boards. An increasing number of students are ...

Tunde Onakoya, a chess master, has been gifted a brand-new Nord A9 SUV by Nord Motion, a Nigerian automaker, after winning a friendly chess match against the company’s CEO, Oluwatobi Ajayi.

Over the past week, a new chess event with a twist, called Checkmate: USA vs India, found a place in the calendar. The tournament will see young gunslingers like D Gukesh, Arjun Erigaisi and Divya ...

A huge case in point being the FIDE Chess Olympiad, which was hosted online in 2020 and 2021. The sequence of events also led to speeding up the growth of chess as an esport, Manu states.