U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte briefed reporters on Thursday following a NATO ...

While 'status-quo plays checkers', Trump is 'playing chess as deal-maker' Pete Hegseth ... he was concerned Europe was not shouldering enough of its own defence, "nearly making, in Eisenhower's ...

The secretary general says he takes reports seriously but that the alliance is in a good position to respond. "If Putin attacks NATO, the reaction will be devastating - he will lose," he says.

Chess grand master Magnus Carlsen is promoting a new tour that scrambles the game’s rules — and has prompted criticism from ...

FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. For 40 years, the chess world has been debating why ...

Indian elections' 'resort politics' is paralleled in chess with the introduction of freestyle chess by Magnus Carlsen, challenging FIDE's classical format. This shift draws support due to the heavy ...

This is not just a testament to their individual brilliance but also a reflection of how far Indian chess has come as a collective force," Sreekar Channapragada, an avid chess follower and co ...

D Gukesh, playing with black pieces, drew his second-round match in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2025 against Vladimir Fedoseev. The day saw several players settling for draws, including Arjun ...

Nothing else will matter if Rich Rodriguez doesn’t find his quarterback, the man who will lead his offense the same way WVU legends Rasheed Marshall and Pat White once did. And even though Nicco ...

Gukesh Dommaraju played and won his first competitive game as world champion on Saturday, but only after surviving a totally lost position ... Wijk aan Zee, the “chess Wimbledon”.

Grandmaster Yakubboev Nordirbek said he refused to shake hands with R Vaishali earlier in January at a Tata Steel Chess tournament due to religious reasons. The 23-year-old created a stir with his ...

The global governing body of chess, FIDE, has announced that talks with the organisers of Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour have not yielded much as the impasse continues in chess. “Despite intensive ...