The celebrated world of competitive chess is sustained by prodigious talent but shadowed by emotional strain. From Morphy to Naroditsky, the game reveals how genius and fragility often travel together ...

Three-year-old Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha from India, who started playing last year, has become the youngest to achieve an ...

Indian toddler Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha practises for four or five hours each day and beat multiple adults to earn his rating ...

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Jessica Hyatt says she began playing chess for the very first time on a computer game at the age of 3. "It was one of the games that I fell in love with," says Hyatt, who is now a world-renowned ...

Hailing from Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar, Sarwagya is still in nursery school but holds a rapid rating of 1,572. He dethroned ...

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