Yang won the Aeroflot Open for the fourth record time, and the third time in the classic control. He took the lead from the ...

American Grandmaster Hans Niemann had challenged Daniil Dubov to an 18-game blitz match in Moscow after the Aeroflot Open, ...

Azerbaijani grandmaster Aydin Suleymanli clinched victory in the 9th and final round against Russian player Ivan Rozum. This ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to ... after marrying a Frenchwoman of Russian origin. He obtained French citizenship in 1978. Spassky did not return to the ...

Boris Spassky, legendary Russian chess player and the 10th World Chess Champion who rose to international fame in the 1972 “Match of the Century” against American Bobby Fischer, died Thursday ...

NEW YORK, December 29. /TASS/. Russian chess grandmaster Yekaterina Lagno has come third at the FIDE World Rapid Championship 2024 in New York. Lagno scored eight points in 11 rounds. India’s ...

they capture one or two Russian drones, open them up, and reveal that they contain American and Swiss components,” he said. A former world chess champion, Kasparov is a prominent opposition ...

The Aeroflot Open chess tournament in Moscow ended with the victory of Ian Nepomniachtchi. The Russian grandmaster amassed 7 ...