Jan Timman, the chess grandmaster who has died aged 74, was one of the world’s finest players from the 1970s through to the 1990s; in an era of Soviet dominance he was known as “the Best of the West”.

Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky unexpectedly passed away in Charlotte, North Carolina. The media figure's death was announced by his chess club, the Charlotte Chess Center, and they shared a ...

The death of American grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has sent shock waves through the professional chess world, with many top players blasting a Russian rival who accused him of cheating during online ...

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Famous chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has tragically passed away at the age of just 29. The California native’s passing was unexpected, and a cause of death has not been announced. Naroditsky’s ...

Chess’s most prestigious tournament is battling a splashy Saudi event. The post The Planet’s Best Chess Players Are Having ...

Judit Polgár won the very first chess tournament she ever played in. She was 6 years old. The Hungarian-born prodigy's impressive rise to chess stardom, which included becoming the world's top-ranked ...

Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha has become the youngest player in chess history to earn an official FIDE rating at the age of three years, seven months and 20 days. Born in 2022, Sarwagya — from Sagar in the ...

BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team look at why sportspeople like Erling Haaland, Victor Wembanyama and Eberechi Eze are all ...