RARELY HAS a tournament involved so little winning. The World Chess Championship of 2018, held in London at The College in Holborn over nearly three weeks from November 9th-28th, began with a series ...

On May 11, 1997, the world chess champion Garry Kasparov was defeated by an unusual player: the IBM supercomputer, Deep Blue. Deep Blue made history as the first computer to beat a world champion in a ...

Freestyle chess is shaking up the chess world, and Jan Henric Buettner comes on the podcast to discuss how this innovative format is disrupting the game and making chess more accessible to the masses.

For long, Chess has been perceived as the game of select intellectuals. While India did have its share of challengers, Viswanathan Anand well and truly transformed the landscape in the country. And ...