The world No 1 won his 21st global title by defeating his old rival Fabiano Caruana in Freestyle chess at Weissenhaus in Germany Magnus Carlsen notched up yet another world crown last weekend when the ...

In a silent school hall on the Isle of Wight the air is thick with tension. Faces twitch nervously, feet shake vigorously under tables, and several heads are clasped in hands. Every so often a chess ...

Indian Grandmaster Aravindh Chithambaram defeated Netherland's Jorden van Foreest but world champion D Gukesh's winless run continued as he played out a draw yet again. World Champion D Gukesh's hunt ...

Polypeptides that are being discovered by the biotechnology industry hold great promise as new drug candidates to target specific disease symptoms. However, polypeptide drugs are rapidly degraded by ...

Magnus Carlsen has been the top-ranked chess player in the world since 2011. X/MagnusCarlsen Magnus Carlsen has been at the top of the chess rankings for more than a decade and a half now and the ...

Jan Timman, one of the Netherlands’ most prominent chess players and a former world number two, died yesterday at the age of 74 after a prolonged illness, the Royal Dutch Chess Federation (KNSB) ...

The youngest ever global title holder has had a hard time this year, but hopes for better in May, when he meets Magnus Carlsen in Norway Chess at Oslo, and in the autumn, when he defends his crown ...