World Cup chess, which will give Candidates spots for top-3 finishers, resumes at Resort Rio in Goa on Tuesday after Monday’s rest day. TOI takes cues from the first three rounds and looks ahead at ...

Erigaisi called on the FIDE, the international chess association, to "stop Kramnik from playing with the mental health of ...

Diptayan Ghosh stunned 12th seeded Russian Ian Nepomniachtchi with black pieces to ensure a place in the third round.

World champion Gukesh Dommaraju was knocked out of the World Cup in the third round on Saturday as the top guns continued to falter in a highly volatile tournament. American Hans Niemann, twice world ...

That queue, to see the likes of D. Gukesh, R. Praggnanandhaa, and Arjun Erigaisi, is getting longer and longer, reflecting not just the newer heights they continue to scale, but the rapid increase in ...

Hans Niemann's hopes of a shot at the chess world championship match ended abruptly on Thursday when the American grandmaster ...

You are a living legend to this game. The chess world is not your enemy," So concluded. Replying to So's post on X, Kramnik wrote (as is), "Dear Wesley, with all my respect towards you, falsely ...

The FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 is set to begin on 31 October to 27 November 2025 in Goa, India. Here's all you need to know.

IMAGE: India's young stars D Gukesh, the youngest World Chess Champion at 18, and R Praggnanandhaa, the runner-up of the 2023 ...

Ian Nepomniachtchi wasn't the only big name to get knocked out early. Even Wesley So, Vassily Ivanchuk and David Navara have been eliminated.

What will once again help Giri is his defensive game. On most days in classical chess ... if the tournament proceeds as the seedings dictate. Wesley So has been in and around the top echelons of elite ...