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Whereas I love the chess-like gameplay of the Demons, knowing how to position my horde to best keep the pressure on, when to use each Demon for maximum carnage, it’s a hell of a feeling.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rupetta Academy, Katmaan Senlong, has urged Nigerian schools to integrate chess into learning, saying it is a powerful tool for boosting academic performance ...
Magnus Carlsen’s admiration for the golden trio of Indian chess — world champion Gukesh, Praggnanandhaa and Arjun Erigaisi — is now well known. But now, Carlsen’s wife Ella has revealed which player ...
When chess legend Garry Kasparov tried to make the machine blink… and failed It is this Kasparov vs Deep Blue battle — famously called ‘The Brain’s Last Stand’ by a magazine on its cover back in 1997 ...
Eight players from the West Midlands have taken part in what is thought to be the UK's first chess tournament on board a moving train, to mark International Chess Day. The competitors battled it ...
I remember, back in the days of my youth, my parents buying me an electronic chessboard. A revolutionary piece of tech that allowed me to master my way into the league at school and end up taking on ...
United Arab Emirates, The extraordinary general assembly meeting of the UAE Chess Federation recently marked a pioneering milestone by adopting the ‘List System’ for the 2025–2028 Board of Directors ...
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rupetta Academy, Katmaan Senlong, has urged Nigerian schools to integrate chess into learning, saying ...
In a groundbreaking celebration of World Chess Day 2025, children at Rupetta Academy made history by playing chess in a swimming pool creating a unique ...
Following his semifinal victory over Fabiano Caruana, Niemann took to X (formerly Twitter) to send a defiant message: “I don’t need an apology, my comeback will be on the chess board, nothing ...
‘Queen on the chess board’: Rockets coach Ben Sullivan on emerging star Amen Thompson Speaking to The Athletic’s Kelly Iko, Rockets assistant Ben Sullivan says: “I think of Amen like the queen on the ...