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Chess

  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Chess: world No 1 Carlsen adds another triumph in Paris Freestyle final

    Puzzle: Black, to play, lost in one move. How could he have won immediately?

  • Monday, 7 April, 2025
    Niemann withdraws from Paris ahead of eagerly awaited game with Carlsen

    Puzzle: find White’s winning move

    A chess player wearing a blazer looks across at something to the side of the board while his opponent contemplates the next move
  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
    Magnus Carlsen sets a memory test for BBC2 chess viewers

    Puzzle: find Black’s surprise winner

    A chess player makes his next move
  • Saturday, 29 March, 2025
    News in-depth
    India’s VC-backed chess academy churns out champions across the board

    Backed by a venture capitalist, Indian chess great Anand has helped propel prodigies to top international rankings

  • Monday, 24 March, 2025
    BBC2’s new chess programme awaits verdict from viewers

    Puzzle: find White’s hidden winning move

    Two players make their move on a chess board
  • Monday, 17 March, 2025
    BBC2’s new chess programme sparks divided views

    Puzzle: can you win for Black?

    A man and a woman sit playing chess in a grand room with a chandelier
  • Monday, 10 March, 2025
    Chess: Oxford vs Cambridge almost level after 152 years

    Puzzle: find White’s only winning move in this tricky endgame

    Two young men shake hands over a chess board
  • Saturday, 8 March, 2025
    FT Magazine
    How a random chess variant won over the world’s best players

    In a barn by the Baltic Sea, Magnus Carlsen makes his move

  • Monday, 3 March, 2025
    Memories of world champion Boris Spassky (1937-2025)

    Puzzle: can you win like Spassky?

  • Monday, 24 February, 2025
    Chess: England’s Matthew Wadsworth edges closer to grandmaster title

    Puzzle: find White’s hidden win

    A chess player sits at the board, contemplating his next move
  • Monday, 17 February, 2025
    Vincent Keymer, 20, defeats world top two Carlsen and Caruana to win $200,000 Freestyle Grand Slam

    Puzzle: White to move and win

    A young man with fair hair, wearing a blue shirt, leans over a chess board, one hand to his head
  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2025
    Freestyle and Fide battle offboard as Carlsen reaches semi-finals

    Puzzle: can you defeat Carlsen in this week’s puzzle?

    A dark-haired man in a white shirt and white jacket looks downwards. A light shines behind him
  • Monday, 3 February, 2025
    World champion Gukesh defeated in battle of Chess’s new wave

    Puzzle: can you beat Magnus Carlsen?

    A chess player in a light blue jacket makes his move on the board
  • Monday, 27 January, 2025
    Gukesh leads like a world champion at the Wimbledon of chess

    Puzzle: find Black’s winning move

    A chess player rests his head on his hand while concentrating on the board
  • Monday, 20 January, 2025
    Chess: Gukesh wins first game as world champion from the brink of defeat

    Puzzle: find Black’s hidden win

    Two young men with dark hair, one with glasses, the other with a beard, sit opposite each other over a chessboard. Behind them the wall is decorated with large illustrations of chess pieces
  • Monday, 13 January, 2025
    Chess: Robert Hübner, four-time world title candidate, dies at 76

    Puzzle: how did Hübner win?

    A chess player sat in front of a board mid-game turns to look at the camera
  • Monday, 6 January, 2025
    Chess: Carlsen signs up with Saudis and Freestyle — then marries

    Puzzle: find the winning move to beat the world No1

    A man in a tuxedo stands next to his bride in a white wedding gown surrounded by bridesmaids and flowers
  • Wednesday, 1 January, 2025
    Carlsen shares World Blitz crown as Russia scores Wall Street double

    Puzzle: find White’s hidden win

    A man in jeans, white shirt and dark jacket walks down some stairs, followed by photographers
  • Wednesday, 25 December, 2024
    Sport
    Chess champion Magnus Carlsen leads gambit to capture ancient game

    Norwegian fronts F1-inspired Freestyle Chess league that aims to exploit ‘massive untapped potential’

    Magnus Carlsen playing chess
  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    Carlsen competes on Wall Street as US players target world crowns

    Puzzle: find White’s winning move

    A young man in blue shirt sits in front of a chess board. He has a pen in one hand and is writing
  • Saturday, 21 December, 2024
    More unforgettable stories from 133 years of FT history
    From the archive: War and pieces

    In the USSR, chess is more than a game

    Garri Kasparov became the youngest World Champion in 1985 when he beat reigning champion Anatoliy Karpov
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Chess: World champion Gukesh, 18, has a hero’s welcome as new challenges await

    Puzzle: find White’s hidden route to win

    A young man wearing a garland of flowers is guided through a crowd of wellwishers at an airport lounge by security guards
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Gukesh Dommaraju becomes youngest world chess champion at 18

    Ding Liren blunders in final game

  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    Ding and Gukesh level at 3-3 as world title match in Singapore stays deadlocked

    Puzzle: find the move that beat Botvinnik

    A young man with dark hair and beard, wearing a light grey jacket over white shirt, sits at a chess board, reaching for a chess piece
  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
    Chess: Ding stuns Gukesh in game one as world title match starts in Singapore

    Puzzle: can you win for White?

    Two me, one in a dark suit, the other in a light grey suit, sit at a chessboard. On the table next to the board are small Indian and Chinese flags
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