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Chess

  • Monday, 7 July, 2025
    World No 1 Carlsen dominates in Zagreb despite another loss to Gukesh

    Puzzle: can you checkmate the grandmaster?

    Two chess masters sit over a board, one making a move while the other watches
  • Monday, 30 June, 2025
    Chess: this week’s English county final tests a century-old north vs south rivalry

    Puzzle: can you find White’s ‘move of the year’?

  • Monday, 23 June, 2025
    Half a century on, the English chess explosion is a fading memory

    Puzzle: find White’s all-checking win

  • Monday, 16 June, 2025
    Indians win World Rapid in London as English team disappoint

    Puzzle: find Black’s clever winning tactic

  • Monday, 9 June, 2025
    Chess: Carlsen scrapes home in Stavanger as he ‘no longer enjoys’ classical chess

    Puzzle: how could White have done better?

  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
    Chess world elite comes to London next week

    Carlsen punches table at Stavanger after loss to India’s world champion Gukesh Dommaraju

    Two chess grandmasters compete over a board on a stage, one looking to the side, the other looking at his opponent
  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    Chess: annual national solving championship 2025 is open to entries from Britain

    Entry is free, with an expected £1,500 prize fund, and the winner qualifies for the world solving championship

  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    Chess: India’s grip on world chess tightens with victory in Bucharest

    Puzzle: find Black’s hidden route to win

    A dark-haired young man in glasses and blue suit sits at a chess board, one arm reaching out to move a black piece
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    Chess: world champion Gukesh loses badly in Bucharest

    Puzzle: White to move and win

    A man stands over several chess boards in games with several children
  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
    World chess stars to compete in €500,000 event in London next month

    Puzzle: find the winning move to beat Mikhail Tal

    A view down a long row of chess players gazing over boards in a large hall
  • Tuesday, 29 April, 2025
    Ukraine’s Vasyl Ivanchuk, 56, sets new landmark for chess veterans

    Puzzle: Black to move and win

  • Tuesday, 22 April, 2025
    Carlsen sets historic record with 9 out of 9 at Grenke Open

    Puzzle: White, to move, lost. Can you do better?

  • 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
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