Around a decade after he picked up chess, Mr Siddharth made history when he became Singapore’s youngest chess grandmaster in ...

By Bart Meijer AMSTERDAM, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Dutch chess grandmaster Jan Timman, known as "the best of the West" in a time when chess was dominated by players from the Soviet Union, has died at the ...

Chess grandmaster Jan Timman, who twice contested the world title in the 1980s, has died at his home in Arnhem at the age of ...

A cause of death has been determined for chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky, who passed away suddenly in October of 2025.

Daniel Naroditsky, a 29-year-old standard-bearer in the world of competitive speed chess that flourished in the COVID-19 pandemic, died over the weekend and leaves behind a legacy as one of the greats ...

In 1996, IBM's Deep Blue faced off against Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess mind on Earth — and changed history.

Nona Gaprindashvili became the first woman Grandmaster in 1978 and a dominant world champion. The Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit mentioned her but inaccurately claimed she had never faced men.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV/Gray News) - A chess phenom from North Carolina died unexpectedly at 29 years old, his club announced on Monday. Daniel Naroditsky, a grandmaster from the Charlotte Chess Center, ...

Magnus Carlsen won the game without losing a single piece, while ChatGPT lost all its pawns, screenshots the Norwegian grandmaster shared on X on July 10 showed. ChatGPT resigned the match. “I ...

Daniel Naroditsky, a chess star and streamer credited with helping expand the game's audience, was found dead at his home in North Carolina in October.

Jan Timman, the revered Dutch chess grandmaster once dubbed "the best of the West" during an era of Soviet supremacy, has died at 74, the Dutch Chess Federation announced on Thursday. A nine-time ...