From the creator of “Peaky Blinders” comes another brutal and dingy underworld drama, this one set among the boxers and ...

Ghanaian theoretical physicist Prof. Francis Ampenyin Allotey (1932-2017) is credited with developing what is known as the ...

Chess grand master Magnus Carlsen is promoting a new tour that scrambles the game’s rules — and has prompted criticism from ...

D Gukesh was off to an underwhelming start in the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour, failing to win a single game in the ...

While Gukesh is out of the quarterfinal, his time in Weissenhaus still continues, as he will battle for the fifth to eighth ranking spots, playing the loser of the Hikaru Nakamura vs Jakovhir Sindarov ...

The team observed intricate sculpting on the eyes and mane of the knight piece. Researchers believe this aspect indicates that it was a premium chess piece constructed by skilled craftsmen in the ...

Modern chessplayers — to put it mildly — are not exactly known for their sartorial sophistication. Now comes news that the ...

Vincent Keymer, meanwhile, completes a fairytale victory over Magnus Carlsen by holding the world No 1 to a draw in Game 2 of ...

The twist: The tour randomizes the starting positions of the chess board’s most important pieces, so each game begins with the queen, rooks and knights in a jumble. Players have to adapt on the fly.

The world champion went winless at a recent event, in a format he looked out of depth. Trainer Gajewski says they’re debating ...