Even by the standards of chess prodigies, Hou Yifan stood out. It wasn’t so much the way she played the game—dynamically but not dazzlingly, with an aggressive but flexible style. It was that she was ...

Javokhir Sindarov is not a big fan of the nickname chess followers have for him these days. Windarov. So what if the pun is as clever as it is accurate.

Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju has become the youngest ever world chess champion, deepening the "love affair between Indians and chess", said The Hindu. Chess has been "around for millennia" and is ...