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Chess #1390

There's controversy brewing around Regium Chess, a new "chess-tech" company

There's proof that chess improves students' academics: Viswanathan Anand

In a Q&A, India's first Grandmaster and World Chess Championship in 2000 talks about his biography and the nuances of the game

CHESS #1389

The Madras High Court has set aside the election process to the All India Chess Federation

CHESS #1388

China is also a major chess "host" and it's an open question what would happen to planned events in 2020

CHESS #1387

Jan Timman analysed the upcoming Candidates in Yekaterinburg in mid-March

CHESS #1386

Fabiano Caruana produced a standout performance to take the Tata Steel with a round to spare

CHESS #1385

The Women's Title match went down to the wire and it was consistently exciting

Tata Steel Masters: Anand draws with Dubov; Carlsen back in reckoning

Fabiano Caruana of United States emerged as the sole leader on six points out of a possible nine after drawing with Nikita Vituigov of Russia

CHESS #1384

The Women's title match moved to Vladivostok for the second half

The troubled genius of Bobby Fischer, who died this week 12 years ago

It's a staggering story, perhaps even more than his eventual victory over Spassky, which brought an end to the USSR's domination of world chess - a win for the "free world" over the oppressive Soviets

CHESS #1383

Ju Wenjun drew first blood in game 4 of the World Title match, winning a scrappy endgame against Aleksandra Goryachkina

CHESS #1383

The King Salman World Blitz and Rapids in Moscow turned into yet another unqualified success for Magnus Carlsen

CHESS #1382

A large number of Indian GMs will play both events but Viswanathan Anand is missing out

CHESS #1381

The two best performers in the four-event Grand Prix get entries to the Candidates

The mind of a champion

The book introduces us to many other characters on the chess circuit, and chess is full of fascinating characters

CHESS #1380

The Jerusalem Grand Prix is a 16-player knockout

CHESS #1379

Ding has played extraordinary chess in the past six months

The astonishing Viswanathan Anand looks back on his journey so far

Viswanathan Anand has been a model of brilliance, consistency and, well, niceness for decades. On the eve of the release of his new book, he talks about the journey so far

CHESS #1378

The Tata Steel India Chess in Kolkata saw Magnus Carlsen register a convincing victory

CHESS #1377

Alexander Grischuk beat Jan-Krzysztof Duda in the finals of the Hamburg Grand Prix, winning 2.5-1.5 in Rapid tiebreaks