At just five, Delhi’s Aarini Lahoty is India’s highest-rated chess player in her age group, boasting a FIDE rating of 1551.

Viswanathan Anand is a five-time World Chess Champion, but never got the title again after his 2013 defeat to Magnus Carlsen.

At the 2024 Norway Chess, the now 19-year-old also notched up his first classical win over Carlsen. In July 2025, ...

It was 2 am, my parents were asleep. I woke my dad up and said: 'I won'.' 'He said, 'Good' and then went back to sleep ...

Woah! This is fantastic. I’m so unbelievably impressed by this.” GM Jan Gustaffson added: “Wow! That is a cute finish!” Could ...

Viswanathan Anand has opened up about his World Championship title clashes with Magnus Carlsen, revealing what went wrong for ...

The world of chess has been going through somewhat of an evolution in recent years, and it’s showing no signs of slowing down ...

Magnus Carlsen's new rivalry with D Gukesh has been a constant throughout this year, and the Norwegian took another dig at ...

Magnus Carlsen won the game without losing a single piece, while ChatGPT lost all its pawns, screenshots the Norwegian ...

Grok 4 was the strongest among eight AI models competing in the exhibition tournament hosted on Google’s Kaggle Game Arena, ...

Magnus Carlsen, 19, sits in the chair at a barbers shop in Oslo on August 31, 2009. Danial Sannum-Lauten/AFP/Getty Images He said his peers treated it like a hobby.

Magnus Carlsen had just been introduced to chess by his father, Henrik, when Jordan was securing his first hat trick of NBA championships with the Bulls in the early 1990s.