On a grim New York Monday in November, a small crowd clustered in a dark room with a thick pane of glass at one end. Defending world chess champion Magnus Carlsen and challenger Sergey Karjakin sat on ...
A Russian chess grandmaster has died after plummeting from the 12th floor of a Moscow apartment block. Chess prodigy Yuri Eliseev, 20, is reported to have lost his grasp on a balcony rail while ...
As birthdays go, Magnus Carlsen’s 26th will take some beating. The Norwegian’s Wednesday afternoon was spent in New York, taking on challenger Sergey Karjakin in a series of tiebreakers at the finale ...
Next month, the World Chess Championship will be played in New York City between the reigning champ, 25-year-old Magnus Carlsen, and 26-year-old Sergey Karjakin, who still holds the record as the ...