The world of chess has been rocked after a Russian chess champion allegedly attempted to poison her childhood rival by covering her pieces in deadly mercury. Now facing a possible prison sentence ...

FILE PHOTO: Chess pieces are seen in front of displayed Russia ... REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo The youngest-ever grandmaster, Russian Sergey Karjakin, has been banned from ...

Sportscategory· February 28, 2025 Chess-Russian grandmaster Spassky dies aged 88 Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky has died at the age of 88, International chess federation (FIDE ...

Most chess sets come with opposed sets of identical pieces ... Political statement here? You bet. This is a Russian chess set, made in 1922-23, when the Russian Revolution was new.

NEW YORK, December 29. /TASS/. Russian chess grandmaster Yekaterina Lagno has come third at the FIDE World Rapid Championship 2024 in New York. Lagno scored eight points in 11 rounds. India’s ...

FILE PHOTO: Chess pieces are seen in front of displayed Russia ... All of them fled soon after the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February. Ushenina is from Kharkiv, a city that has suffered ...

MOSCOW, September 18. /TASS/. The Ukrainian Chess Federation must not turn the world of chess into a battlefield but rather become an example in fostering ties and co-existing peacefully ...