On​ the morning of 18 April 2023, the chess grandmaster Ding Liren was discussing tactics with his coach. He was ...

D Gukesh came face to face with world No 1 Magnus Carlsen for the first time since he was crowned world champion in December, ...

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The field for the Norway Chess tournament was announced, with Gukesh D set to play against Magnus ... A double round-robin style tournament, Norway Chess will be the first time that five-time ...

Eighteen months after leaked recordings revealed widespread match-fixing in the board game xiangqi, also known as Chinese chess, China has imposed lifetime bans on three grandmasters. Announced last ...

Xiangqi, commonly known as Chinese chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is a game where both players battle against each other with two armies, and the main objective is to ...

In the other opening quarter-final games, Magnus Carlsen and Vincent Keymer defeat Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Alireza Firouzja ...