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Chess

May 2025

  • Eberechi Eze celebrates his winning moment in the chess.com PogChamps tournament.

    Eze does it: England footballer wins celebrity chess tournament

  • Thalia Holmes beat Richie Kelly in the final of Chess Masters: The Endgame, watched by a BBC Two audience of 655,000

    Leonard Barden on chess
    BBC Two’s Chess Masters: The Endgame divides opinions as winner is crowned

April 2025

  • Magnus Carlsen relaxes before a match on the Freestyle Grand Slam tour

    Leonard Barden on chess
    Chess: Carlsen scores record nine out of nine at Grenke Freestyle Open

  • Magnus Carlsen beat Hikaru Nakamura 1.5-0.5 in the final of the Paris leg of the Freestyle Grand Prix

    Leonard Barden on chess
    Chess: Carlsen scores in Paris, leads Freestyle Grand Slam after two events

  • Rory McIlroy, Caitlin Foord and Alessia Russo, Marc Márquez.

    Sports quiz of the week
    Sports quiz of the week: Rory McIlroy, Marc Márquez and Champions League

  • 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

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

  • 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

  • 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

    Russian chess world champion who lost to Bobby Fischer in the sport’s most famous match at the peak of the cold war
  • 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

    The over-65s have been world champions three times in four years, but the over-50s finished out of the medals as USA claimed another title
  • Two men in suit haunched over a desk during a chess game

    Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky dies aged 88

    World champion will be remembered for the ‘match of the century’ against American Bobby Fischer in 1972
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