The terms used to refer to people who ensure that the laws of sports are adhered to in physical indoor and outdoor activities are ‘umpires’ and ‘referees.’

But the guardian of law in chess is an arb

India’s Padmini Rout caused a minor upset by holding top seed and WGM Paikidze Nazi of Georgia on day four of the SDAT-Ramco world junior chess championship at Vijay Park here on Friday.

The day als

Kerala schoolboy S.L. Narayanan delivered a stunning defeat to local favourite and Grandmaster Adhiban Baskaran in the second round of the SDAT-RAMCO 50th World Junior and 29th Junior Girls Chess Cham

You don’t have to be exceptionally brilliant to make your mark in a particular field.

But as they say, hard work always pays and the recent triumph of Arjun K., a talented chess player, stands testi

Wijk Aan Zee, The Netherlands: Viswanathan Anand scored a crushing victory over Alexei Shirov of Spain in the 10th round to maintain his position at the top in the 73rd Tata Steel chess tournament

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Hyderabad, Nov. 16: Bagging a bronze medal for the country in the chess event of the Asian Games is not something that Dronavalli Harika had on her priority list. But the medal at the Asiad mad

World Champion Viswanathan Anand struck back with vengeance and outclassed Wang Yue of China with black pieces in the sixth round of the Pearl Spring Chess tournament in China.

With his second win a

Bilbao (Spain): World Champion Viswanathan Anand played out a hard-fought draw with Magnus Carlsen of Norway to finish second in the Bilbao Final Masters chess tournament here on Saturday.

The silve

The advent of the Internet and the advancement in information technology in general have democratised chess coaching in India. It is also easier for players of this generation to lay their hands on ch

World chess champion Viswanathan Anand does not wish to become part of the chaos and controversy surrounding the Commonwealth Games here and only wants to focus on the number of medals India would win