A top Russian lawmaker who has called for an end to the war in Ukraine suffered serious head injuries outside Moscow's State Duma and was placed in an artificial coma, according to multiple reports.

Russian-born chess grandmaster and émigré Gennadi “Genna” Sosonko still remembers where he was 40 years ago today, when he heard that the 1984-85 World Championship match in Moscow between Garry ...

Chess grandmaster and former world champion Anatoly Karpov, who has waged a highly public campaign in defense of his nomination as Russia's candidate for the presidency of the World Chess Federation, ...

Jan Timman, the chess grandmaster who has died aged 74, was one of the world’s finest players from the 1970s through to the 1990s; in an era of Soviet dominance he was known as “the Best of the West”.

From Bobby Fischer to Magnus Carlsen: 22 of the most famous world chess championship games The 138-year history of the world chess championship is filled with games of rare precision, imagination and ...

One of the fiercest and most politically charged rivalries in world chess resumed today when former world champions Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov arrived in the Spanish city of Valencia for a ...