On Tuesday August 20, resourceful English chess columnist Leonard Barden turned 95. He writes a weekly column for the UK Guardian newspaper, which started in September 1955 and continued with few ...

Bodhana Sivanandan had only been playing chess for five years when she won against 60-year-old Peter Wells in the final round of the 2025 British Chess Championships in Liverpool A 10-year-old girl ...

London schoolgirl’s father taught her to play when she was five, and three years later she beat former British champion ...

Shreyas Royal took to social media on Tuesday to share that FIDE, the world governing body of chess, had officially approved his GM title application making him the youngest-ever player from the ...

Rishi Sunak will shortly announce £500,000 government funding for English chess, along with plans to expand the game in state schools, plus 100 chess tables in public parks. The move has been ...

The English Chess Federation, the governing body for chess in England, reported almost 14.6 thousand members in the 2022/23 period. This shows a significant rise over the 2020/21 membership of around ...

"The rain, the clouds, the lack of sun - I feel at home here," Nikita Vitiugov says. London, the chess grandmaster remarks, feels similar to St Petersburg, in terms of the weather, at least. One of ...

Across eight episodes, passionate and highly-skilled players from all backgrounds will battle it out across a series of rapid chess games before one will be crowned the title of Chess Master In a ...