Jan Timman, chess player who took on Anatoly Karpov for the world championship

Jan Timman, the chess grandmaster who has died aged 74, was one of the world’s finest players from the 1970s through to the ...
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Judit Polgár Was the No. 1 Female Chess Player at 12. Now She's Looking Back on Her Record-Breaking Career (Exclusive)

Judit Polgár won the very first chess tournament she ever played in. She was 6 years old. The Hungarian-born prodigy's impressive rise to chess stardom, which included becoming the world's top-ranked ...

Can latest chess prodigies emulate Magnus Carlsen's dominance? FIDE CEO gives his take: 'These guys are exceptional'

Argentina’s Faustino Oro and Turkey’s Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus, both in their early teens, are taking the chess world by storm and ...
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Indian boy, aged 3, becomes youngest rated chess player in history

Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha has become the youngest player in chess history to earn an official FIDE rating at the age of three years, seven months and 20 days. Born in 2022, Sarwagya — from Sagar in the ...