A 22-year-old girl and her brother have become the world's first-ever pair of siblings to earn the grandmaster title for playing chess. Young Vaishali Rameshbabu became the third female grandmaster…
A museum in Germany that lost treasures worth EUR 113 million when it was robbed in 2019 has received a chess set worth nearly EUR one million as a present…
An astonished Icelandic football club has told how it was left more than GBP 1.1 million by a fan in his will. Follower Guomundar Eggert Oskarsson left the sum to…
The first COVID-19 diagnosis in northern Russia has been confirmed as an Irishman who had arrived in the country to take part in a chess contest. The Irish patient, name…
A chess grandmaster who was found dead in a Moscow flat after switching his allegiance from Ukraine to Russia was "liquidated" according to a far-right Ukrainian nationalist group. Police are…
The early rules to a game believed to be an ancient ancestor of Chinese chess have been found on bamboo slips unearthed from a 2,000-year-old tomb. The tomb of Marquis…