India's - and the world's - largest open tournament is underway
If the Saudis are to host again in 2018 and 2019, they will have to let Israelis, Qataris, Iranians, et al, play, or risk more players staying away
Viswanathan Anand ended 2017 on a high note, winning the world rapid championship in Riyadh
The World Blitz and Rapid Championships kick off this weekend in Riyadh against the backdrop of a controversy
Fabiano Caruana won the London Classic and Magnus Carlsen won the overall Grand Chess Tour
Google subsidiary Deep Mind released a paper describing how its AI, AlphaZero, thrashed the strong chess program Stockfish8
There are now two Norwegian world champions
R Praggnanandhaa shares third in the World Juniors with two rounds to go
The Champions Showdown in St Louis may result in two innovations
The Khadi National Premier in Patna is coming to a close
The Uzbek prodigy, Nodibirek Abdusattorov, has completed his GM title
On one famous occasion, Michael Adams set up an opening position wrong while preparing for a Candidates match against Viswanathan Anand!
Since it's Diwali, let's do a run through of some of the stuff on every serious player's wish-list
Canadian GM Kovalyov withdrew after being berated and threatened for wearing shorts
The proliferation of big, high prize money Opens in the last couple of years has led to "democratisation"
Levon Aronian won the World Cup, beating Ding Liren in a tiebreaker
The World Cup finals will see Levon Aronian taking on Ding Liren
The World Cup saw a series of high-rated players including three of the highest class, leaving the stage
The n-queens completion puzzle is a form of mathematical problem common in computer science
Round one of the World Cup marked the end of an era when Anand was knocked out by Kovalyov