Carlsen won five world chess championship titles — beating opponents like Anand (twice), Sergey Karjakin, Fabiano Caruana and Ian Nepomniachtchi — before walking away from the 2022 world championship ...

It had been an unexpectedly close contest in Singapore with Ding Liren. When he won, the normally stoic Gukesh clasped his hands at the board and burst into tears. By Dylan Loeb McClain Viswanathan ...

Viswanathan Anand's loss to Magnus Carlsen at the 2013 World Championship marked the end of an era in chess and the coronation of the game's new monarch. Carlsen would remain world champion till 2023 ...

"The era of "Vishy's children" is truly upon us!" is what Russian chess great Garry Kasparov said in his long tribute to Gukesh Dommaraju after the 18-year-old broke surpassed him as the youngest ever ...

Indian chess legend Viswanathan Anand recalled Magnus Carlsen's younger days, revealing that the Norwegian would lure a lot of unsuspecting opponents to their doom with his endgame and dry technical ...

Q: Your book reveals a side of emotional extremes throughout your career, which on the outside wasn't seen as a part of your personality. How did you keep that under control, under wraps for so long?

In the historic "Clash of Generations" match held at La Versiliana in the beautiful city of Pietrasanta, Italy, India's five-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand defeated Argentina's 11-year-old ...

Grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi defeated five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand in an all-Indian final to clinch the Jerusalem Masters title. After the duo drew the opening rapid games, Erigaisi struck ...

Viswanathan Anand expressed disappointment with Vladimir Kramnik's unfounded allegations regarding cheating, especially after Daniel Naroditsky's death. Anand assured action through the ethics ...

It’s hard to imagine five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand saying, “He showed me chess in a way I hadn’t seen it before”. But that’s the legend’s honest admission when you talk to him about the ...