Let's take a look at the top five male chess players who have spent the longest period as World No. 1. A Soviet Union/Russian ...

In a rare double unlikely to be replicated, the new world chess champion is an 18-year-old grandmaster from the Indian city ...

FORMER chess grandmaster Boris Spassky has died aged 88. The Russian became world champion in 1969. He still held the title as he took part in the “match of the century” against ...

The twist: The tour randomizes the starting positions of the chess board’s most important pieces ... and when Russian grand master Garry Kasparov lost to an IBM supercomputer in the 1990s.

Mumbai: Boris Spassky, the 10th World Chess Champion whose 1972 clash with Bobby Fischer became a defining tableau of Cold ...

Chess grand master Magnus Carlsen is promoting a new tour that scrambles the game’s rules — and has prompted criticism from chess’s global governing body.

If Garry Kasparov and Bobby Fischer are among your heroes, if watching Anya Taylor-Joy in The Queen’s Gambit is your jam, and ...

Then there is the matter close to the Chancellor’s heart – and to mine: chess ... Board for BBC Radio 4. I would interview, over a chessboard stuggle, not just world champions such as Garry ...