A 10-year-old British chess prodigy defeated world champion Mariya Muzychuk — putting her one step closer to becoming the youngest grandmaster. Bodhana Sivanandan has been described as a "girl wonder, ...

Anna and her sister Mariya, who is also a chess pro, have both refused to participate in this very lucrative competition as a mark of protest against the way the host country treats its women.

Anna Muzychuk, a 27 year-old Ukrainian woman, currently holds two World Champion titles in speed chess. This week she will lose them both without playing a single game. Why? Because Muzychuk, along ...

Grandmaster D Harika showed steely nerves to beat Mariya Muzychuk of Ukraine and storm into the quarters of the World Women's Chess Championship. Grandmaster D Harika showed steely nerves to beat ...

Indian Grandmaster R Vaishali surged into a joint lead at the FIDE Grand Swiss in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, after defeating former world champion Mariya Muzychuk. Vaishali's victory puts her alongside ...

The top seeds are in the two top places as GM Hikaru Nakamura at 4-1 leads GM Wesley So by a half-point through Sunday’s Round 5 of the U.S. Open Championships, now underway at the Chess Club and ...