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    • Tuesday, 29 August, 2023
      Chess
      Carlsen and Niemann resolve cheating claim dispute that divided chess

      Stand-off over alleged cheating led to a $100mn lawsuit and polarised opinion among chess fans

      Two mean lean over a chess board
    • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
      Chess
      Chess: Magnus Carlsen is level against Indian teenager in World Cup final

      Puzzle — find the winning move that would have beaten Carlsen

      A teenage chess player leans over the board with intense concentration
    • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
      Chess
      Carlsen outwits teenagers at World Cup as Russians fail

      Puzzle: find the win that Carlsen missed

      Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen takes notes at the side of the chess board sat opposite his opponent, India’s Dommaraju Gukesh
    • Monday, 17 July, 2023
      Chess
      Chess: who is the greatest — Fischer, Kasparov or Carlsen?

      Puzzle: solve the convict’s mate in three

    • Monday, 10 July, 2023
      Chess
      Carlsen scores two maximums in a golden age for grandmasters

      Puzzle — solve this tricky two-mover

    • Monday, 3 July, 2023
      Chess
      Carlsen promotes pawn to knight in Global Chess League

      Puzzle — find the hidden mate in three

    • Monday, 26 June, 2023
      Chess
      Global Chess League starts in style, but China’s world champion is absent

      Puzzle: find White’s visually implausible mate in two

    • Monday, 19 June, 2023
      Chess
      Magnus Carlsen campaigns to cement his legend

      Puzzle: can you mate the lone black king in two moves?

    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
      Chess
      Carlsen loses with the Polish Defence to a Pole in Warsaw

      Puzzle: can you find White’s hidden win?

      Chess player Magnus Carlsen in deep thought looking for his next move on the board
    • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
      Chess
      Ding levels world title match after error-strewn twelfth game

      Puzzle: find the surprise answer

    • Tuesday, 18 April, 2023
      Chess
      Nepo leads 4-3 in world title series as Ding freezes in time pressure

      Plus puzzle — can you crack this century-old teaser?

    • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
      Chess
      Chess world title match starts this weekend

      Plus: in this week’s puzzle — can you mate in three in five minutes?

      Chinese grandmaster Ding Liren looks deep in thought as he studies the chessboard facing his opponent
    • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
      Chess
      Anish Giri wins at Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee as Magnus Carlsen’s late rally falls short

      Plus: in this week’s puzzle — can you win the battle of queens and rooks?

    • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
      Chess
      Carlsen fights back from two straight defeats at Wijk

      Plus: in this week’s puzzle — can you checkmate like the Bletchley codebreaker?

      Norwegian chess star Magnus Carlsen at play over the board
    • Monday, 9 January, 2023
      Chess
      Carlsen takes on the young guard on Saturday at the ‘chess Wimbledon’ 

      Puzzle: find White’s winning move

    • Tuesday, 3 January, 2023
      Chess
      Carlsen performs a treble triple as Norway’s chess world No 1 excels at speed

      In this week’s puzzle: White failed to find the best move — can you do better?

    • Tuesday, 20 December, 2022
      Chess
      America’s Nakamura defeats world No1 Carlsen in online speed epic

      Plus: in this week’s puzzle — find Carlsen’s winning move

    • Monday, 12 December, 2022
      Chess
      Magnus Carlsen to play world rapid and blitz starting Xmas Day

      Puzzle: can you solve this picturesque mate in two?

    • Monday, 21 November, 2022
      Chess
      Carlsen wins seven mini-matches straight in online Tour final

      Puzzle: White to move and win

    • Tuesday, 25 October, 2022
      Chess
      Chess: Niemann sues Carlsen and others for $100mn — what happens next?

      In this week’s puzzle: find the imaginative route to victory

      Magnus Carlsen faces Hans Niemann across the chess board
    • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
      Chess
      Hans Niemann sues over chess cheating claims

      Grandmaster, 19, accuses champion Magnus Carlsen and others of slander in affair that has rocked game’s elite echelons

      Hans Niemann playing chess
    • Friday, 30 September, 2022
      Jennifer Shahade
      The complexities of cheating in chess

      As technology helps players calculate their odds, it also helps to catch those trying to manipulate them

      Hans Niemann, right, denied ever cheating in over-the-board games after claims made by fellow grandmaster Magnus Carlsen divided the chess world
    • Friday, 30 September, 2022
      News in-depthChess
      Cheating accusation tips chess world into turmoil

      World champion Magnus Carlsen’s dispute with a teenage rival has sparked wild rumours of dirty tricks

    • Tuesday, 27 September, 2022
      Chess
      World champion Carlsen accuses rival of cheating

      Puzzle: find the grandmaster’s winning move

    • Tuesday, 20 September, 2022
      Chess
      Carlsen resigns after just one move in Niemann rematch

      Puzzle: can you find the snag in the solution?

      Magnus Carlsen and Hans Niemann face one another at a chess board
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