Velammal MHS School's chess team triumphed at the 2025 World Schools Team Championship, continuing India's chess dominance.

India has become a major power in international chess led by its highest-ranked player, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa.

With her FIDE Women’s World Cup victory, Divya Deshmukh cements India’s growing dominance in women’s chess and challenges ...

Emma Kong first played chess at an after school club aged seven. Now she has competed internationally as well as being named ...

Eighteen-year-old Indian man Gukesh Dommaraju shed tears of joy after becoming the youngest-ever undisputed world chess champion in Singapore on Thursday, December 12.

For years, women's chess has been ruled by Chinese and Russian players. But with Humpy’s World Rapid title, India’s historic ...

For Gukesh, who became the youngest-ever world chess champion last year, it was a momentous victory and one which he didn’t think would come. “99 out of 100 times, I would lose. Just a lucky ...

Divya Deshmukh, 19, became the first Indian to win the FIDE Women’s World Cup, defeating Koneru Humpy. She also earned her ...

Chess News: 19-year-old Divya Deshmukh, from Nagpur, achieved a historic win. She became the first Indian and youngest to ...