The championship also highlighted the tournament’s broader educational and social role. Ninety-one participants were unrated ...

Beginning Sunday and lasting until July 24, 10 junior chess players will face off in the U.S. Junior Chess Championship. This year, Gainesville’s got a stake in the competition.

The 2026 championship spans four continental stages covering Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe. The Asian stage concluded ...

Editor's Note: This story makes mention of death by suicide. Nine months after the death of chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky, his close friend Peter Giannatos, who serves as founder and executive ...

In September of 2022, Magnus Carlsen had won 53 consecutive classical chess matches.Then, he sat down across from Hans Niemann. Carlsen, then 32 and a five-time World Championship, was widely ...

“Chess” will close early on Broadway, with the buzzy revival ending its run on June 21. Although Lea Michele was scheduled to depart the production in late June, the musical had intended to remain on ...

Platform Schools has won the 2026 Ecobank National Schools’ Team Chess Championship for the third time. The Ipaja-based school went home with N2.5 million. Dayspring School, Oyo, finished second and ...

These African banks tested the limits of organic growth and prospered in 2025, but constraints force a strategic shift. Organic growth has been the mainstay of profitability for Africa’s top banks for ...

For some Bronx students, chess is more than a board game — it teaches them how to strategize. For 6-year-old Yianna Parra, a student at the Rosalyn Yalow Charter School, it’s competitive. “What I like ...

You’re reading The Sporting Scene, Louisa Thomas’s weekly look at the world of sports. When Gukesh Dommaraju was a small child growing up in Chennai, India, his parents wanted him to be an athlete.

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Javokhir Sindarov is unbeaten in the Candidates Tournament Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images Javokhir Sindarov will face defending champion Gukesh Dommaraju in the men’s World Chess Championship later ...