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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Bloomberg) -- Since becoming prime minister last year, Rishi Sunak has tried to get Britain to embrace its nerdy side. Next up is ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

The United Kingdom has decided to allow a 9-year-old chess prodigy to remain in the country, after his father's work visa expired and his family faced deportation back to India. Shreyas Royal is "very ...

The winner of the Candidates Tournament, a 20-year-old Uzbek, relies on his intuition and computers, and has not studied the great champions of history ...

Indian-origin chess prodigy Bodhana Sivanandan, just 11 years old, has achieved the remarkable feat of becoming England's top-rated female chess player, marking a significant milestone in her ...

‘We are allocating £1.5m to help identify, support and elevate top-tier players’ ChessFest in Trafalgar Square attracted more than 20,000 visitors last Sunday, slightly below last year’s record 23,000 ...