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Chess

April 2025

  • Ju Wenjun and Tan Zhongyi faced off for the Fide Women's World Chess Championship in Shanghai and Chongqing.

    Ju Wenjun outclasses rival Tan Zhongyi to retain women’s world chess title

  • Magnus Carlsen shakes hands with Nodirbek Abdusattorov

    Leonard Barden on chess
    Chess: Magnus Carlsen in form at Paris Freestyle after Hans Niemann drops out

  • Chess: King and Pawn Isolated on White Background<br>More Photos like this here...

    The Séamas O’Reilly column
    My son has found a way to beat me at chess – replace all the pieces with Minecraft Lego

    Séamas O’Reilly
  • Tan Zhongyi and Ju Wenjun

    Leonard Barden on chess
    Chess: Tan Zhongyi takes shock lead over Ju Wenjun in Women’s World Championship

March 2025

  • Magnus Carlsen, pictured last year

    Leonard Barden on chess
    Magnus Carlsen makes cameo in BBC Two’s Chess Masters as drop in viewers slows

  • Action from BBC Two's Chess Masters: The Endgame

    Leonard Barden on chess
    BBC Two chess show keeps 710,000 viewers despite rocky opening week

  • People playing bridge

    Why bridge trumps chess as the game to play

  • A scene in which a detective interviews a child who is seated alongside his father

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Adolescence; Michael Sheen’s Secret Million Pound Giveaway; Chess Masters: The Endgame – review

  • The Guardian view on the chess boom: how rooks and knights captured the world

  • Leonard Barden on chess
    BBC Two’s Chess Masters: The Endgame provokes sharply divided reactions

  • TV review
    Chess Masters: The Endgame review – so dull it’s almost unwatchable

  • Leonard Barden on chess
    Chess returns to the screen on Monday with Chess Masters: The Endgame

February 2025

  • Boris Spassky, right, playing the Yugoslavian Svetozar Gligorić at the 41st Annual International Chess Congress, 1965. This was the beginning of the Russian champion’s peak period.

    Leonard Barden on chess
    Boris Spassky obituary

  • England's victorious over-65 team with the trophy in Prague

    Leonard Barden on chess
    Chess: England over-65s lead all the way to world senior team gold at Prague

  • Two men in suit haunched over a desk during a chess game

    Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky dies aged 88

  • Magnus Carlsen in action

    Leonard Barden on chess
    Chess: Carlsen wins again as he qualifies for the $1.5m Saudi Esports World Cup

  • Leonard Barden on chess
    Chess: Vincent Keymer knocks out Magnus Carlsen in Freestyle Grand Slam

  • Leonard Barden on chess
    Chess: Carlsen meets world champion Gukesh after Freestyle truce called

  • Checkmate? Magnus Carlsen calls on international chess president to quit

January 2025

  • Chess 3957

    Leonard Barden on chess
    Wood Green and Manx Liberty take Four Nations Chess League down to the wire

    The teams have both won all their four matches in the UK national league and are set to meet in the final round in May
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