Five-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand on Thursday said that in an era where players are overwhelmed by data from computers, deep understanding has become the only true differentiator in modern ...

D Gukesh is probably one of the most popular celebrities in India right now, due to his historic World Chess Championship victory in Singapore. The 18-year-old became the youngest-ever world chess ...

New Delhi: The International Conference on Social and Educational Chess under the banner of Chess Mahakumbh was inaugurated at KIIT University today, heralding the beginning of a first-of-its-kind ...

We do run the gauntlet of receiving a reprimand when we send across a copy of Viswanathan Anand’s latest title, Lightning Kid: 64 Winning Lessons from the Boy Who Became Five-Time World Chess Champion ...

World chess champion Viswanathan Anand joined his first chess club when he was six, at a time when the game was a niche hobby in India. It was his mother who first taught him how to play. Since then, ...

Norway's Magnus Carlsen reacts during a news conference after clinching the FIDE World Chess Championship in the southern Indian city of Chennai November 22, 2013. Carlsen replaces India's Viswanathan ...