Thomas MackintoshBBC News, LondonAFP via Getty ImagesA stock image of a man playing chess in a tournament in Kandahar in June 2022The Taliban government in Afghanistan has banned chess until ...
Can chess be used as a tool to prevent violence among minors?
By Vera Avramidou
The Relationship between Chess and Violence Prevention
Chess is not just an intellectual ...
Everyone who is anyone in the digital world is gathering in Hamburg these days. The venue is the Hamburg Messe, where the Online Marketing Rockstars Festival (OMR) is ...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave joined the three-way tie for first, with GMs Fabiano Caruana and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, in the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2025 after round four. He won ...
Momentous results
The third round of the Superbet Chess Classic in Bucharest maintained the tournament's dynamic pace, with two decisive results among direct title ...
GMs Fabiano Caruana and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu lead the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2025 after three rounds, both winning for the first time in the tournament. Caruana toppled the ...
70 moves plus
Round two of the Superbet Chess Classic in Bucharest saw the two players who had lost in round one recovering with determined victories. Maxime ...
Both players who lost the previous day, GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Bogdan-Daniel Deac, bounced back with wins in the two decisive games of round two in the Superbet Chess Classic ...
Contrasting wins
The first round of the 2025 Superbet Chess Classic in Bucharest saw Alireza Firouzja and Wesley So take the early lead after securing contrasting wins. ...
Round 2
The Superbet Chess Classic is the second stage of the 2025 Grand Chess Tour.
The tournament is a 10-player single round-robin with a classical time control. The ...