The 11th National team chess championship got underway, amidst confusion over availability of clocks and chessboards and subsequent postponement of the men’s first round, here on Wednesday.

KARACHI: Pakistan’s International Master Mahmood Lodhi finished joint fourth in the 3.2 Asian Regional Chess Championship held in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka produces its first International Master
It was way back in 1980 that Sri Lanka got her first Internationally rated chess player. L.C. Goonetilleke, then an undergraduate at Colombo University did well enough in the first Rating Tournament held in Sri Lanka against a strong field of Sri Lankans as well as international players to win a rating. 

PUNE: P Harikrishna and Sandipan Chanda have made it a great fortnight for Indian chess.

Puria Darini ha conseguido el título de maestro de ajedrez, distinción otorgada por la Federación Internacional de Ajedrez (FIDE, por sus siglas en francés).

El entrenador lituano, que profesaba la fe católica, del equipo iraní de ajedrez ha dado a conocer este miércoles su conversión al Islam y al chiismo, y que de ahora en adelante será llamado Ali.

Woodpushers from Cadiz city and various places like Silay City, Bacolod City, Guimaras, Bago city, Agusan del Sur, Bohol and Cebu city joined the event for a chance to crown champion in six different categories.

A prize pot of $30,000 is at stake in the Philippine Sports Commission Cup International Chess Championship slated Jan. 13 to 21 at Ninoy Aquino Stadium in Manila.

Filipino chess grandmasters Wesley So and Julio Catalino Sadorra helped their respective universities reach the President's Cup, an event that is considered the 'Final Four' of collegiate chess, after four different universities forged a five-way tie at the Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship, held from December 27 to 30 at Princeton University.

NEW DELHI: Grandmaster Aleksej Alexandrov of Belarus surged ahead with a hard-fought victory against International Master, K Rathnakaran in the third round of the premier section of Parsvnath International Chess festival on Sunday.

By: Jaideep Unudurti
You'll bring the board?" asks Mrs Aruna Anand over the phone, "For we don't have one at home." Viswanathan Anand, the world champion, doesn't own a chess set. I am not surprised. Over the past decade, computers have taken over India's greatest export, storing billions of positions in giant databases.

Delhi is set to host an elite six-player chess tournament for the AICF-AAI Cup which, in terms of the average playing strength of the contestants, will be the strongest seen in the country.

GURGAON: The renowned Russian grandmaster Gary Kasparov once said that a game of chess is equivalent to mental torture. And never are the stress levels as high as when the game is played at competitive levels.

Indians reigned supreme at the World Youth Chess Championship, which concluded at Maribor in Slovenia on Sunday. India shared honours with Russia to finish atop as the power houses bagged eight medals each including three gold, two silver and three bronze medals.

International Master Himanshu Sharma of Haryana with nine points emerged as champion by drawing his final round game with Himal Gusain of Chandigarh in the All India Open Fide Rating Chess Championship here on Tuesday.

A ten-year-old Vietnamese boy won the World Youth Chess Championship in Maribor in Slovenia on November 18, after securing a victory in the 10th round against another young Indian contender.

Manila, Philippines – Asia’s first Grandmaster Eugene Torre will celebrate his 61st birthday with long-time chess friends and supporters by gracing the Novaliches Novelty Chess Club twin tournaments the SM City Novaliches on Sunday, Nov. 4.

DUMAGUETE CITY, Nov 1 (PIA) -- Filipino Grand Master (GM) Oliver Barbosa dominated the 10th Buglasan Festival chess cup competition at the Negros Oriental Convention Center, Dumaguete City.

Seventeen, as I remember it, was a year of change in more ways than one. My father had just retired and we moved into our own house in Chennai’s Besant Nagar. In those days, Besant Nagar was a lonely suburb. I vividly remember my evenings, spent by the sea at Elliot’s Beach, and solitary nights on my balcony where I would reflect quietly on my chess.

Chinese players dominated the nine-round Indonesia Open Chess Championship, which concluded in Jakarta on Wednesday with GM Yu Yangyi taking top prize, followed by last year’s winner GM Li Chao in second place.