If you have played a game of online chess, or queued up in ranked esports games, chances are you’ve already encountered the Elo rating system. Originally developed in the 1960s by physics professor ...

Vietnam number one chess player Le Quang Liem has reached his career-high position of 14th on the standard chess Elo ranking, surpassing the reigning world champion Ding Liren. In the final game of ...

A few days ago, D Gukesh, part of the Indian team for the Olympiad, breached the Elo rating of 2700. Here's a brief explainer on how Elo came to being, why it's important and how some of us could have ...

Magnus Carlsen got there at 15 years and two months. Now, at 14 years and 10 months, Indian chess prodigy, Grandmaster Nihal Sarin has crossed 2600 Elo in the live rating list, becoming the ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday hailed Grand Master Arjun Erigaisi's historic achievement of scaling 2800 rating points, a mark where only one other Indian, Viswanathan Anand, had reached so ...

The weekend's chess matches with my father ended as they always do, but with a twist. I lost, mostly, but it wasn't to a checkmate. Instead it happened four times when he managed to get both of his ...