The FIDE Women's Chess World Cup is among the most grueling of tournaments. It goes on for nearly a month and features more than 100 players, prodigies to world champions, across age and nationalities ...

The Global Chess League (GCL), a joint initiative of Tech Mahindra and FIDE, today announced that Season 4 will be hosted in ...

Strategic Alliance to Launch 'India Rising' The Esports Foundation (EF) has teamed up with JioBLAST to unveil 'India Rising: ...

Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju has become the youngest ever world chess champion, deepening the "love affair between Indians and chess", said The Hindu. Chess has been "around for millennia" and is ...

The Esports Foundation (EF) and JioBLAST have partnered to launch 'India Rising: Road to EWC,' a national competition giving ...

From D Gukesh to Praggnanandhaa, Vaishali, Arjun Erigaisi, and Nihal Sarin, India’s chess prodigies share a common story — ...

NEW DELHI: The memories of 20-year-old Javokhir Sindarov sweeping past his challengers in the Candidates tournament were still raw when 30-year-old Russian Grandmaster Daniil Dubov ended up scoring a ...

Indian grandmaster Vaishali Rameshbabu defeats Kateryna Lagno to win the 2026 Women’s Candidates and qualify for the World Championship.

Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta expressed disappointment over what he described as a complete lack of accountability from both the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

R Vaishali has created history by becoming the first Indian woman to win the FIDE Women’s Candidates and qualify for the World Chess Championship.