The Tata Steel Chess India Rapid & Blitz Open tournament begins without world champion D Gukesh and Magnus Carlsen. Key ...

Arjun Erigaisi, bronze medallist in World Rapid and Blitz last week, opens against fellow Indian Vidit Gujrathi ...

Viswanathan Anand will compete at the Tata Steel Chess India after a six-year hiatus, marking a significant return to Kolkata ...

Five-time former world champion opens against Wesley So in Tata Steel rapid and blitz that starts in Kolkata on Wednesday ...

D Gukesh, last seen at the World Rapid and Blitz Championship, has withdrawn from the 2026 Tata Steel Chess India which would ...

After appearing in the first three editions as a player, and later as the event’s ambassador and promoter, Anand returns to ...

Here’s Magnus Carlsen at last year’s Tata Steel, in a pose fit for this year’s Tata Steel. Photo: Dean Mouhtaropoulos (Getty Images) A championship on the line. A move so cold and calculated it has to ...

In huge news for chess fans in India, reigning World Champion D Gukesh has withdrawn from the Tata Steel Chess India Rapid and Blitz tournament. The tournament is scheduled to be held in Kolkata from ...

World champion D Gukesh has withdrawn from the 2026 Tata Steel Chess India tournament in Kolkata due to personal reasons and ...

World rapid champion Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw with world number one Magnus Carlsen of Norway in the ninth round of Tata Steel Masters here. Read Less Settling for his sixth draw in ...

In newspaper terms, the sidebars may have been more compelling than the main story at the 80th running of the powerful Tata Steel Chess Tournament in the chess-obsessed Dutch city of Wijk aan Zee.

There were two big winners in this year’s Tata Steel chess extravaganza in the Dutch city of Wijk aan Zee, one a name we know and one a name we may be hearing a lot more about in the years to come.