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Chess

March 2025

  • A total puzzle what this is doing on our screens … Chess Masters: The Endgame.

    TV review
    Chess Masters: The Endgame review – so dull it’s almost unwatchable

  • Chess Masters: The Endgame hosts David Howell, Sue Perkins and Anthony Mathurin

    Leonard Barden on chess
    Chess returns to the screen on Monday with Chess Masters: The Endgame

February 2025

  • Boris Spassky, right, playing the Yugoslavian Svetozar Gligorić at the 41st Annual International Chess Congress, 1965. This was the beginning of the Russian champion’s peak period.

    Leonard Barden on chess
    Boris Spassky obituary

  • England's victorious over-65 team with the trophy in Prague

    Leonard Barden on chess
    Chess: England over-65s lead all the way to world senior team gold at Prague

  • Two men in suit haunched over a desk during a chess game

    Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky dies aged 88

  • Magnus Carlsen in action

    Leonard Barden on chess
    Chess: Carlsen wins again as he qualifies for the $1.5m Saudi Esports World Cup

  • Leonard Barden on chess
    Chess: Vincent Keymer knocks out Magnus Carlsen in Freestyle Grand Slam

  • Leonard Barden on chess
    Chess: Carlsen meets world champion Gukesh after Freestyle truce called

  • Checkmate? Magnus Carlsen calls on international chess president to quit

January 2025

  • Chess 3957

    Leonard Barden on chess
    Wood Green and Manx Liberty take Four Nations Chess League down to the wire

  • Anish Giri takes on Gukesh Dommaraju at Wijk aan Zee

    Leonard Barden on chess
    Chess: Dommaraju Gukesh recovers from brush with disaster at Wijk aan Zee

  • Xue Haowen in action at the Hastings Masters

    Leonard Barden on chess
    Hastings Masters guards chess tradition and unveils a new 16-year-old star

  • Magnus Carlsen plays Michael Bezold during Day 1 of the FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship on 30 December 2024 in New York City.

    Chess crazy: TV shows, schools, clubs and fashion all grab a piece of the game

  • The Guardian view on Magnus Carlsen’s power play: checking chess’s ruling body in style

  • Leonard Barden on chess
    Chess: newly married Carlsen signs up with Bundesliga, Freestyle and Saudis

  • The wrong trousers: how sporting dress codes can create an image problem

    Emma John

  • Sports quiz of the week
    Sports quiz of the week: Luke Littler, Gabriela Dabrowski and Thomas Tuchel

  • Leonard Barden on chess
    Chess: jeans-clad Carlsen defies critics to share Blitz with Nepomniachtchi

December 2024

  • Magnus Carlsen competes at day two of the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship on Friday in New York.

    Magnus Carlsen to return at World Blitz Championship after dress code dispute

  • Ana Schnabl

    What home means to me
    Cross-legged under an enormous pine tree, my chess pieces and I tamed chaos

    Ana Schnabl
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