BAKU– The 19-year-old Divya Deshmukh stunned the chess world by winning the FIDE Women’s World Cup 2025, becoming the first Indian woman to claim the prestigious title. In the all-Indian final, Divya ...

Indonesian rescuers have recovered the bodies of at least 17 people,--- Who were swept away in flash floods or buried under tons of mud and rocks,--- That hit hilly villages on the country’s main ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Magnus Carlsen has a vision to transform the ancient game of chess. The grandmaster, a contender to be the ...

Russia's chess team is to remain banned from international competitions, officials have ruled. In a dramatic move, an International Chess Federation (Fide) general assembly meeting in Budapest voted ...

It’s no queen’s gambit. A Russian chess player is under investigation after allegedly being caught on camera spraying her opponent’s board with what authorities said was a substance containing mercury ...

Bodhana Sivanandan, a fourth-grader, has become one of England’s best players just a few years after discovering chess during pandemic lockdown. By Isabella Kwai Since learning chess during a pandemic ...

Chess is one of the oldest board games. You can play relaxing games with friends, or you can engage with a very active competitive chess community. What’s truly remarkable about chess is that it’s ...

Event sourcing is an architectural software pattern that's useful to design complex and distributed systems, particularly those that run many processes concurrently. The pattern captures and stores ...

He sacrificed his grandmaster dreams to become one of the game’s most popular personalities. Levy RozmanCredit...Chris Buck for The New York Times Supported by By Reid Forgrave “Ladies and gentlemen!” ...