An Isle of Wight chess tournament is highlighting the game's growing popularity with young people.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Bloomberg) -- Since becoming prime minister last year, Rishi Sunak has tried to get Britain to embrace its nerdy side. Next up is ...

English chess is celebrating a historic week for two chess prodigies after the International Chess Federation (FIDE) awarded 15-year-old Shreyas Royal the title of Grandmaster (GM) and 9-year-old ...

A British child chess prodigy has swept the board at a national competition, earning her a place among the top 50 women in the world for the blitz category of speed chess. Ten-year-old Bodhana ...

Bodhana Sivanandan, a fourth-grader, has become one of England’s best players just a few years after discovering chess during pandemic lockdown. By Isabella Kwai Since learning chess during a pandemic ...

Two people hunched over a black and white checkered board, deliberating what moves they will make, how their opponent might counter and how they might counter that counter, with barely a flicker of ...

The Isle of Man team enlisted two young English stars to help regain the 4NCL title that they won in 2022 and 2023 The Four Nations Chess League (4NCL) is a bedrock of British chess. Staged over 11 ...

"The rain, the clouds, the lack of sun - I feel at home here," Nikita Vitiugov says. London, the chess grandmaster remarks, feels similar to St Petersburg, in terms of the weather, at least. One of ...

Ten-year-old British chess prodigy Bodhana Sivanandan achieved a historic victory, defeating former World Champion Grandmaster Mariya Muzychuk at the European Club Cup. This remarkable win, achieved ...