On Tuesday August 20, resourceful English chess columnist Leonard Barden turned 95. He writes a weekly column for the UK Guardian newspaper, which started in September 1955 and continued with few ...

Bodhana Sivanandan had only been playing chess for five years when she won against 60-year-old Peter Wells in the final round of the 2025 British Chess Championships in Liverpool A 10-year-old girl ...

Shreyas Royal took to social media on Tuesday to share that FIDE, the world governing body of chess, had officially approved his GM title application making him the youngest-ever player from the ...

The 53-year-old is just one short of Jonathan Penrose’s record, while Bodhana Sivanandan became the youngest ever woman international master Michael Adams edged nearer the all-time record for British ...

"The rain, the clouds, the lack of sun - I feel at home here," Nikita Vitiugov says. London, the chess grandmaster remarks, feels similar to St Petersburg, in terms of the weather, at least. One of ...

Ten-year-old British chess prodigy Bodhana Sivanandan achieved a remarkable victory by defeating former World Champion Grandmaster Mariya Muzychuk at the European Club Cup in Rhodes, Greece on Sunday, ...

Across eight episodes, passionate and highly-skilled players from all backgrounds will battle it out across a series of rapid chess games before one will be crowned the title of Chess Master In a ...

Is online gaming ruining chess? Players say it’s not quite as black and white as that - IN FOCUS: The lockdown, combined with ...