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Shreyas Royal, 17, is youngest ever British chess champion as new generation takes over

Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, is the youngest ever British women’s champion while Supratit Banerjee, 12, has become England’s youngest ever international master

The Guardian - UK

Indian-origin prodigies Bodhana Sivanandan, Shreyas Royal make British chess history

Bodhana Sivanandan and Shreyas Royal made chess history winning the British Chess Championships. Bodhana became Britain's youngest Women's chess champion after a playoff. Shreyas Royal secured the overall British title, finishing ahead of grandmasters. Royal, who moved from India, was allowed to stay in the UK. This event was the…

The Economic Times

Chess: Adams loses first British Championship game since 1988 to rising star

The Taunton grandmaster had been unbeaten in 87 games in a row, during which time he had won all his nine titles

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Chess: Scotland’s Freddy Waldhausen Gordon, 15, routs the English in British Rapidplay

The teenager defeated the tournament favourite, Gawain Maroroa Jones, in the final round to secure victory by half a point

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Chess: British players win Isle of Wight Masters as Scots achieve rare double

GM Matthew Wadsworth won in Ryde on tiebreak, Scottish GM Matthew Turner also shared first, while in Graz Scotland’s Freddy Waldhausen Gordon, 15, qualified for the IM title

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Outsiders sense Chess World Cup glory after host of big names make early exits

Fifteen of the top 20 seeds were eliminated in the first four rounds, including world champion Gukesh Dommaraju, Germany’s Vincent Keymer and Hans Niemann of the US

The Guardian - UK

Chess: Ukraine soldier grandmaster wins gold medal at European team championships

Igor Kovalenko, 36, the world No 48 with a Fide rating of 2669, has been a frontline soldier for three years and only began playing again a month ago

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Chess: England jump to fifth at European championships, with outside medal chance

England, seeded fifth among 40 teams at the start, were fifth after six of nine rounds while England women, seeded 12th among 36, were 11th

The Guardian - UK

Chess: Kai Hanache, 13, beats three grandmasters at UK blitz qualifier

Schoolboy also beat three international masters and made a huge ratings gain, but was edged out in the final round

The Guardian - UK

Chess: World champion Gukesh falters against teenager as Grand Swiss starts on Silk Road

The contest in Uzbekistan will qualify two of the eight 2026 world title Candidates, but Nakamura, the world No 2, has controversially preferred a low-rated qualification route

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Magnus Carlsen shows class and wins $250,000 at frantic Esports World Cup

World No 1 swept the board in every round and was determined to show chess in its best light at Saudi event

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Chess: Aronian takes big top prize in Las Vegas as Niemann celebrates Carlsen’s downfall

World No 1 Carlsen settled for third as Aronian took the $200,000 prize in the Las Vegas leg of the Freestyle Grand Slam

The Guardian - UK

Manx Liberty’s wildcards deliver in style to regain British team chess crown

The Isle of Man team enlisted two young English stars to help regain the 4NCL title that they won in 2022 and 2023

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Chess: Carlsen scores in Paris, leads Freestyle Grand Slam after two events

The world No 1 defeated his old rival and world No 2, Hikaru Nakamura, in the final, and took the $3.75m series lead before the third Slam event in Las Vegas

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BBC Two chess show keeps 710,000 viewers despite rocky opening week

Chess Masters: The Endgame received some negative reviews for its 10 March debut, watched by 890,000, but fears of a second-week meltdown proved overblown

The Guardian - UK

Chess returns to the screen on Monday with Chess Masters: The Endgame

The new programme on BBC Two will be very different from 42 years ago when the eighth and final series of The Master Game was never shown due to industrial action

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Gukesh and Ding tied in world chess title clash as England’s best pitch up at Emirates

After Gukesh Dommaraju and Ding Liren draw game four to tie the match at 2-2, English talents prepare to take on overseas rivals

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Chess: England gains new grandmaster as Ameet Ghasi qualifies at age 37

The Birmingham amateur achieved his title in Norway after years of trying, while Jonah Willow, 21, became the latest from the young generation to score a GM norm

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Carlsen struggles amid controversy at $1m Global Chess League in London

The world No 1 lost to Firouzja in round two and although he won the return game, his team failed to reach the final, in which Triveni Continental Kings face PBG Alaskan Knights

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Sports quiz of the week: heroes, history, medals and meltdowns at the Olympics

Have you been watching the football, athletics, golf, basketball, hockey, wrestling, canoeing, cricket and rugby?

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Chess: Carlsen loses in 23 moves but beats Ding and wins Titled Tuesday

The world No 1 arrived at the World Team Rapid and Blitz jetlagged and lost to Richard Rapport but then beat the world champion before scoring 11/11 in the weekly event

The Times of India

Shreyas Royal is youngest British GM

LONDON: A 15-year-old Indian-origin chess player has become the youngest ever British grandmaster.

Evening Standard

London chess player, 15, becomes Britain's youngest grandmaster as his father tells of pride

Shreyas Royal smashes his own target by six years

The Guardian - UK

Boy, 15, becomes youngest British chess grandmaster

Shreyas Royal, whose family was granted visa after appeal by Rachel Reeves, aspires to become world chess champion by 21

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Chess: Yagiz Erdogmus, 13, on the verge of 2600 and closing on world age record

The Turkish teen is poised to achieve the landmark rating at September’s 193-nation chess Olympiad in Budapest

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