Defending champion India heads to the 2026 Chess Olympiad with the women's team seeded No. 1 and the men's side ranked second ...

The scientific legacy of the Samarkand school helped sustain and spread Islamic intellectual traditions from Central Asia to ...

Tourism is booming along the former trade routes of ancient Uzbekistan. To understand its recent transformation, Gary ...

Viswanathan Anand has reversed his earlier decision and will contest for the FIDE deputy president's post on Timur Turlov's ...

The Indian women are seeded first in the Chess Olympiad, which will be held in Samarkand from September 15 to 28. India’s men are seeded second, behind the top seed, the United States. India is the ...

Fourteen-year-old Bayelsa State player FM Goodness Ekunke has captured the World Rapid Amateur Chess Championship in Abuja.

Soar over Registan Square in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, the heart of the ancient Silk Road and one of the most breathtaking examples of Islamic architecture in the world. The drone captures the three ...

The last time the Indian women's team took part in the biennial Chess Olympiad, they won gold. The team consisted of Harika ...

The Bahamas Chess Federation (BCF) has announced the players, coaches, and officials selected to represent The Bahamas at the ...

On a trip along the Silk Road, columnist Annalee Newitz discovers that ancient technology can offer us a framework for our own advances. The most important drivers of technology aren’t inventions or ...

Some are ancient, some are modern, and while centuries and even millennia separate them, the appeal of these 25 man-made ...