Indian Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran earned 6.5 points from 10 rounds to become the first Indian to win the 52nd Capablanca Memorial Chess tournament at Varadero, Cuba. Sasikiran played out a quick ...

"Chess is everything; art, science and sport." So said Russian grandmaster Anatoly Karpov once, and the Capablanca Chess School, the new centre in the city offering professional training in the game ...

Jaco Nelson is the chess coach of Curro Hazeldean Primary school. Curro Hazeldean Primary are very proud of their chess coach Jaco Nelson who took part in the chess tournament at Southdowns College.

In Buenos Aires 32 small statues stood upon a polished piece of wood. Sixteen of them were white; behind these sat a middle-aged Cuban, Jose Raul Capablanca, chess champion of the world. Behind the ...

After decades spent playing simultaneous chess, an 87-year-old Hungarian pensioner has clinched a world record by finally overtaking a total set by 1920s Cuban grandmaster Jose Raul Capablanca. Almost ...

In a recent interview with Vedomostisport, former World No. 20 Dmitry Tursunov compared Daniil Medvedev to former chess champion Jose Raul Capablanca. Tursunov claimed that the Russian performs ...