When you think of Indian chess and any firsts associated with it, the architect behind it is invariably Viswanathan Anand. India's first grandmaster, India's only world champion till date, and until ...

Carlsen won five world chess championship titles — beating opponents like Anand (twice), Sergey Karjakin, Fabiano Caruana and Ian Nepomniachtchi — before walking away from the 2022 world championship ...

It had been an unexpectedly close contest in Singapore with Ding Liren. When he won, the normally stoic Gukesh clasped his hands at the board and burst into tears. By Dylan Loeb McClain Viswanathan ...

Viswanathan Anand's loss to Magnus Carlsen at the 2013 World Championship marked the end of an era in chess and the coronation of the game's new monarch. Carlsen would remain world champion till 2023 ...

Be it men or women, India is making waves in the world of chess on the global spectrum. With two Indian women battling it out in the final of the Chess World Cup final, a gold medal is guaranteed.

"The era of "Vishy's children" is truly upon us!" is what Russian chess great Garry Kasparov said in his long tribute to Gukesh Dommaraju after the 18-year-old broke surpassed him as the youngest ever ...

In the historic "Clash of Generations" match held at La Versiliana in the beautiful city of Pietrasanta, Italy, India's five-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand defeated Argentina's 11-year-old ...

With Gukesh’s form dipping in recent years, some of the comments from former world champions like Magnus Carlsen and Garry ...

Indian chess legend Viswanathan Anand recalled Magnus Carlsen's younger days, revealing that the Norwegian would lure a lot of unsuspecting opponents to their doom with his endgame and dry technical ...

It’s hard to imagine five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand saying, “He showed me chess in a way I hadn’t seen it before”. But that’s the legend’s honest admission when you talk to him about the ...

Viswanathan Anand last competed at the chess World Championship a decade ago. These days, he's not a regular player on the FIDE circuit either. Yet, in the first week of the World Championships in ...