An eight-year-old girl has been crowned best female player at the European blitz chess championships. Bodhana Sivanandan, from Harrow, north-west London, scored 8.5/13 at the event in Croatia, ...

There is a rare opportunity to watch the elite in action in London this week. The Tech Mahindra Global Chess League, now in its second season, brings together Magnus Carlsen, world No 2 Hikaru ...

A 10-year-old chess prodigy from north-west London has become the youngest person to earn the woman international master title. Bodhana Sivanandan, from Harrow, also became the youngest female player ...

A 15-year-old boy from Woolwich has become the youngest British chess grandmaster. Shreyas Royal achieved the title at the British Chess Championships in Hull on Sunday, surpassing the previous UK ...

LONDON, June 6 (Reuters) - (This June 6 story has been corrected to fix Lucia Ene-Lesikar's age to 22 in paragraph 4) Combining dance music, some social media buzz and one of the world's oldest ...