What began as a language-learning app has evolved into a platform where users can now learn maths, music and even one of India’s oldest games, chess. Duolingo has teamed up with Talented India on a ...

A quiet name suddenly took over chess timelines this week, and it didn’t belong to a grandmaster or a veteran legend.It belonged to Sergey Sklokin, a .

World champion Gukesh Dommaraju suffered a shock defeat at the FIDE World Blitz Championship 2025 in Doha after losing to ...

A 10-year-old girl who started playing chess five years ago has made history by defeating a grandmaster, according to the International Chess Federation. Bodhana Sivanandan won against Peter Wells, a ...

The world of chess crowned its youngest-ever world champion on Thursday. Gukesh Dommaraju, an 18-year-old prodigy from India, defeated defending champion Ding Liren of China in the best-of-14 final ...

Fifth-grader Bodhana Sivanandan has become one of the world’s top chess players and now she is the youngest female international master. NBC News’ Raf Sanchez sits down with the chess prodigy.

Seven-year-old Pragnika Lakshmi won a world chess title in her first international event and met PM Modi. Inside the journey of India’s newest chess prodigy.

Bodhana Sivanandan became the youngest female chess player to defeat a Grandmaster after taking down Peter Wells earlier this month. Sivanandan, 10, broke the record previously set by Carissa Yip in ...

We grow up believing that greatness reveals itself early. The chess prodigy, the child violinist, the teenage Olympian—these ...

I am going to fully admit that my knowledge of chess is fairly limited, beyond having played it as a kid and then again with my kids until they could beat me. I don’t truly consider it a sport, at ...