chess

PAT GRAHAM Associated Press To keep his racing mind in check, Edmonton goaltender Stuart Skinner sometimes turns to the chess board. Anything to unwind and not constantly dwell — even obsess — on…

Chess board Photo: PHOTOSPORT The seventh game of the chess world championship took an unexpectedly dramatic turn when China's Ding Liren froze under time pressure and lost to Russian Ian Nepomniachtchi from a potentially…

BERLIN: Teenaged Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh stunned former world rapid champion Nodirbek Abdusattorov of Uzbekistan in the final to win the World Chess ArmageddonAsia & Oceania event here.Gukesh emerged winner in a topsy-turvy summit…

Photo: Gladson Xavier/Pexels Chess will crown a new world champion when Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren begin their battle on Monday in the shadow of incumbent Magnus Carlsen, who voluntarily relinquished the title he held…

Ding Liren. The absence of Magnus Carlsen has robbed the World chess championship some of its sheen no doubt, but Viswanathan Anand believes it is still going to be an exciting affair.The Norwegian’s abdication means chess will have a new…

Hampden, Maine — The students at Weatherbee Elementary School in Hampden, Maine, may seem peaceful enough. But start a war on a chessboard and these rookies — with their knight moves — become a royal pawn in the chess to anyone who…

By AFP Russia's Ian Nepomniachtchi and China's Ding Liren begin battling it out Sunday to become chess world champion after top-ranked Magnus Carlsen, considered one of the best players of all time, opted not to…

Two former intelligence officials called for a complete transformation of Canada’s security apparatus to counter expanding foreign interference operations that they say have been essentially ignored by Ottawa since the 1990s. On…

After Australia's victory in the third Test at Indore, Steve Smith compared captaincy in India to a "game of chess", and the stand-in skipper is ready to play that game one more time in the fourth and final Test of the Border-Gavaskar…

INDORE: One doesn’t know if the term ‘match-winning captaincy’ is a thing, but Steve Smith sure served up an example of it in the Indore Test. In the process, he showed yet again that he is a natural in the leadership role,…