World Chess Championship

Ding Liren. | Photo Credit: AP Tell me, Grandmaster, how can a Western European Grandmaster lose to a Chinaman?Dutch Grandmaster and author Jan Hein Donner thus asked Gudmundur…

PARIS: The World Chess Championship will be decided in a rapid-play tiebreak on Sunday, after Russia's Ian Nepomniachtchi and China's Ding Lirenremained deadlocked following 14 games played…

OSLO: Newly-crowned double World Chess champion Magnus Carlsen says he's unlikely to defend his title unless he faces French-Iranian prodigy Alireza Firouzja. "For those who expect me to…

The champion’s fourth victory — second with black — left the final score reading 7.5-3.5 As anticipated, Magnus Carlsen ended Ian Nepomniachtchi’s agony with three games to spare after…

In what turned out to be the quickest game of the ongoing World chess championship title match, Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi needed only 125 minutes to draw Game 10 in 41 moves in…

After a day’s rest, a new look and a new opening choice did not change Ian Nepomniachtchi’s fortunes.His reputation of being prone to committing blunders in the least expected stage of a…

Nepo is two points down and will have to summon every ounce of his strength to continue fighting We are just past the halfway point of the Magnus Carlsen-Ian Nepomniachtchi World Chess…

An uncharacteristic blunder on the 21st move from Ian Nepomniachtchi was enough for Magnus Carlsen to find a sound winning plan in Game 8 for a 5-3 lead in the World chess championship in…

Magnus Carlsen’s unmatched persistence came to the fore as he reinforced his reputation of being able to “squeeze water out of stone.” Displaying awe-inspiring tenacity, the champion nailed…

Magnus Carlsen escaped some serious time-trouble by reeling off five moves in the final minute of the first time-control against Ian Nepomniachtchi as the sixth game of their World chess…