Guardian sport and agencies    Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest player to win the men’s Candidates chess tournament after a draw against Hikaru Nakamura on a nailbiting final day of the event. The year old effectively wrapped up victory in the tournament after American Fabiano Caruana blundered a winning position against...

Séamas O’Reilly    year old will play defending champion Ding Liren for titleTan Zhongyi and Ju Wenjun will compete for women’s titleGukesh Dommaraju became the youngest player to win the men’s Candidates chess tournament after a draw against Hikaru Nakamura on a nailbiting final day of the event in Toronto on...

Guardian staff and agency    But he has yet to master the art of losing gracefullyI am beset by shrapnel. Pawns fly through the air like exploded balcony segments, rooks plink and plonk off the floor and embed themselves deep within the recesses of our home. My five year old son stands above the debris, glowering like Godzilla...

Leonard Barden    Tunde Onakoya, who beat previous record of hours, hopes to raise m for children’s education in AfricaA Nigerian chess champion has broken the record for the longest chess marathon after playing the game nonstop for hours.Tunde Onakoya, , began the marathon session in Times Square in New...

Leonard Barden    With just the final two rounds to come, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Hikaru Nakamura and Gukesh Dommaraju share the lead while the world No, Fabiano Caruana, is half a point behindWith rounds complete and just Saturday’s and Sunday’s final two rounds to come, the Candidates in Toronto could hardly be...

Leonard Barden    The year old Russian, a defeated world title challenger in and , is in line for a third attempt as he leads in Toronto at halfway Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi leads at halfway in the k Candidates in Toronto, Canada, whose winner qualifies for a world title match later this year with...

Leonard Barden    Contest to decide Ding Liren’s challenger began on Thursday, while the world No kept up his winning streak in the Grenke ClassicThe eight potential challengers who began the Candidates tournament in Toronto on Thursday have an unfamiliar feeling. Whoever wins will be a firm favourite to capture...

Guardian Staff    Lu Miaoyi jumped to the international master level at Reykjavik, while Alice Lee beat the US No Irina Krush in St LouisIn November this column wrote that a then little known year old Chinese girl, Lu Miaoyi, could join Judit Polgar and Hou Yifan among the top three women players in...

Leonard Barden    Classic chess game Music memories Kiwi confusion Spider insider Leonard Barden’s description of the match of the century in Chess: Fischer v Spassky revisited Reykjavik Open echoes match, March is a masterclass in summarising an exciting sporting and political drama while...

Leonard Barden    Freestyle Chess also known as Fischer Random and Chess has announced a m tournament in each of five continentsFreestyle Chess, which made an impressive debut last month, has firmed up its plans to expand into five continents next year, as well as enlisting the top elite grandmasters into...

Leonard Barden    More than players, including several young English talents, are competing in Iceland’s premier eventMore than half a century on, the Bobby Fischer v Boris Spassky series at Reykjavik in remains the most famous of all world championship matches. It triggered a global chess boom, not least...

Leonard Barden    The top seed fought back from a fifth round blunder and won the title after a playoff with Ireland’s No woman, Trisha KanyamaralaDanny Gormally, the top seed, fought back from a fifth round blunder to claim the British Rapidplay title one hour games after rounds in two days at Peterborough...

Leonard Barden    The eight time British champion, , has played games without defeat, while Ruqayya Rida, , scored against two GMs and Bodhana Sivanandan, eight, is the new world No under nineMichael Adams has now won seven major tournaments in a row without loss of a game.The eight time British champion...

Edward Helmore    The world No ’s impressive victory last week has put the random chess variant into the spotlight and its billionaire organiser plans to expand into all five continents next yearAfter the success of last week’s Freestyle Chess event where the world No, Magnus Carlsen, defeated the world...

Leonard Barden    Ashwath Kaushik of Singapore defeats year old grandmaster, beating record set days before by another eight year oldAn eight year old chess prodigy from Singapore has become the youngest chess player to beat a grandmaster.After a three hour game of chess at Switzerland’s Burgdorfer Stadthaus Open...

Leonard Barden    The world No recovers from a slow start to defeat young rivals Firouzja and Abdusattorov while China’s world champion is unable to shake off a losing spiral Freestyle chess is a new name for the variant where the back rank pieces are placed randomly, so as to make the game more a test of skill...

Leonard Barden    The Norwegian, , continues to dominate online chess and has won of the the past Tour finals he has contestedMagnus Carlsen, the world No, maintained his outstanding record in the online Champions Tour this week with a victory in the Chessable Masters. The Norwegian, , has now won...

Leonard Barden    The year old was a grandmaster at and the youngest ever rated player at , now he has jumped into the world top with a chance to aim for the ultimate peakChina’s Wei Yi, , captured first prize last weekend in a competitive field at Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee, the annual Netherlands...

Leonard Barden    The year old, who took eight months off due to illness, planned a comeback at the chess Wimbledon but, with just two weekend rounds left, he is only half a point clear of bottom placeDing Liren’s comeback at Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee is in danger of eclipse this weekend as China’s world...

   The Chennai teenager is being backed by his country’s second wealthiest individual as he bids to win the Candidates at Toronto in April and qualify for a title match against Ding later in India’s rising talent Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa had a day to remember at Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee on ...