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At a small tournament in France, 11-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan broke a record held for 38 years by chess legend Judit Polgar — and picked up her first International Master norm in the same week.
Every move in chess is a small decision with a real consequence — and that's exactly why the game is so good for kids aged 6 to 13. Here's what a major university study and a record-breaking 10-year-old can teach us about raising braver, smarter thinkers.
FIDE has announced that Geneva will host the 2026 World Chess Championship between champion Gukesh Dommaraju and challenger Javokhir Sindarov — the youngest title match in chess history, returning the crown fight to Switzerland for the first time in 22 ye
Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, and Levon Aronian are facing off against Uzbekistan's next generation — including the player who will soon challenge for the World Championship — in a first-of-its-kind rapid and blitz match on Miami Beach.
At the 2026 German Championship, three players ranked below the country's strongest grandmasters swept the podium — proving that on the right week, youth and nerve can outweigh rating points.
Vietnamese GM Tuan Minh Le pulled off one of the wildest comebacks in Bullet Brawl history on Saturday, erasing a 20-point deficit to Hikaru Nakamura in the tournament's final quarter-hour — and Nakamura had jokingly predicted his own downfall just minute
American teenager Alice Lee delivered one of the biggest upsets of the year, crushing two-time defending champion Ju Wenjun 9.5-3.5 in the Women's Speed Chess Championship quarterfinals — and she says she wasn't even expecting to win.
FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich has suspended his own powers after being placed on an EU sanctions list, handing control of world chess's governing body to five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand. Meanwhile, in Chennai, Alireza Firouzja just won a str
In the last 24 hours, Alireza Firouzja won the Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters in India with an unbeaten 4.5/7 — his second big title in a row. The shock of the event was World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju, who finished last on 2/7 in his home region. Dmitry Andreikin grabbed second on tiebreaks with a final-round win over Nodirbek Abdusattorov. A simple, warm look at chess's latest ups and downs.