Mikhail Tal (1936-1992), a Soviet/Latvian chess player, was an interesting man. He was a grandmaster at 21, a world champion at 23 (that record has since been broken by Garry Kasparov who won the ...

The draws in the fourth round of the 7th Tal Memorial don’t tell the whole story. Magnus Carlsen with three draws in the previous rounds, went all out to try crazy stuff against Alexander Grischuk.

It seems chess goddess Caissa is particularly kind to world chess #1 Norway’s, Magnus Carlsen as not only did the talented genius pull off a crucial last-round victory, but the overnight leader ...

There is this unending discussion in chess about whether the players of yesteryear could have matched the champions of today. One commentator said if the great Cuban world champion Jose Raul ...

World champion Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw by Boris Gelfand of Israel in the fourth round of Tal Memorial chess tournament here. Playing after the first rest day, Anand got something to play ...

Editor’s note: This article was originally published on 16 September 2019, some of the numbers in this article are as of that date. In July 2019, Prithu Gupta became India’s 64th chess grandmaster. It ...

Viswanathan Anand played out a draw with in-form Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia and remained in the joint third spot in the 10th edition of Tal memorial chess tournament in Moscow. The penultimate round ...

Moscow -- Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand played out a draw with Li Chao of China to slip to the third position at the end of the third round of the 10th Tal Memorial Chess tournament.

Viswanathan Anand never bothered to look beyond the draw against Vassily Ivanchuk in the Tal chess tournament in Moscow and got it easily with black. Viswanathan Anand never bothered to look beyond ...