Mumbai: Ahead of his own tournament, The Magnus Carlsen Invitational, the Norwegian world champion suffered a setback at the hands of precocious Alireza Firouzja in the final of the Banter Blitz Cup ...

Le Quang Liem finished second in the Banter Blitz Cup on Friday to secure entry to the San Fermin Mundial tournament in Spain. After beating Ukrainian player Kirill Shevchenko 4.5-2.5 in the ...

He may have been born and brought up in Russia — from where his mother hails — and now settled in the Netherlands with family. But Anish Giri has a close connect with India as his father is from ...

Vietnamese chess player Le Quang Liem has made it through to the quarter-finals of the Banter Series online chess tournament after defeating 2019 Chess World Cup winner Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijani ...

After sharing the top prize in their last online chess battle, Filipino-born Wesley So falls short this time against world No. 1 Magnus Carlsen Magnus Carlsen won the first two games and went on to ...

Liem booked his place in the last eight following consecutive wins against Kamil Plichta (Poland), Jaime Santos Latasa (Spain) and Ray Robson (the US) in the Group B qualifying campaign. Alongside ...

Wesley So, the Philippines' former top chess player now representing the US, and world No. 1 Magnus Carlsen arrange another online title clash There will surely be a winner between Magnus Carlsen and ...

Ahead of his own tournament, The Magnus Carlsen Invitational, the Norwegian world champion suffered a setback in the hands precocious Alireza Firouzja in the final of the Banter Blitz Cup that ...