With the Global Chess League bringing franchise-style play to India, chess is making a power move from niche to mainstream.

Daniel Naroditsky, a standard-bearer in the world of competitive chess that flourished in the COVID-19 pandemic, died Monday at the age of 29, leaving behind a legacy as one of the greats of the game ...

Obit Daniel Naroditsky This undated photo released by Charlotte Chess Center shows Daniel Naroditsky playing chess at the computer. (Kelly Centrelli/Charlotte Chess Center via AP) (Charlotte Chess ...

Teen chess prodigy Pranav Venkatesh, a world junior champion, advances in the Chess World Cup, eyeing a spot in the ...

Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout ...

Hailing from Karaikudi, 18-year-old Pranesh M, India's 79th Grandmaster, defied limited resources to achieve chess stardom. Learning from borrowed bo ...

Daniel “Danya” Naroditsky, best known as the chess grandmaster who could play the game blindfolded, died on October 19, 2025, his family and the Charlotte Chess Center announced. He was just 29. Since ...

It was a simple, deceptively simple show. The "audience" gathered in the middle of a performance square that was marked out on three sides by three signs: YES, NO, MAYBE. The young players took the ...

It starts with a round of carrom, followed by antak shari, and then a string of made-up games invented by the kids. Soon, ...

The chess star, 29, was later pronounced dead on Oct. 19, per a police incident report Naroditsky was an internationally recognized chess icon and maintained a following of hundreds of thousands on ...

A 10-year-old British chess prodigy who needs a booster seat to see the board played a ‘near perfect game’ to beat a former women’s world champion and grandmaster. Schoolgirl Bodhana Sivanandan took ...