A Dutchman, he was considered the best player outside the Soviet Union for two decades, although he described himself as “lazy” and was open about using alcohol and drugs early on.

The most thrilling part before I actually got to Manila was the plane ride to the Philippines, which – as most of you might know – is a country made of more than 7,000 islands in the Pacific Ocean. We ...

Viswanathan Anand became Asia’s third Grandmaster in 1988. Eugene Torre, the first from the continent to get that most important title for chess players, did it in 1974. He was also the first Asian to ...

At a time before his country became a chess powerhouse, he defeated four world champions, including Bobby Fischer and another in an unlikely turn of events. By Dylan Loeb McClain Dylan Loeb McClain ...

Russian-born chess grandmaster and émigré Gennadi “Genna” Sosonko still remembers where he was 40 years ago today, when he heard that the 1984-85 World Championship match in Moscow between Garry ...

At the corner of Moscow’s Mayakovsky Square and Gorki Street stands the cavernous Chaikovsky Hall. Its stage is a blaze of light so that the eyes of the chess world can concentrate on the battle being ...