The world of chess had a rather tumultuous end to 2024, with top players like Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura taking on FIDE, the global governing body of chess. Carlsen and Nakamura accused FIDE ...

A council has removed a chess table from a Nottingham car park after it was criticised by some residents. Nottingham City Council installed the chequered table and seating at Winchester Street Car ...

Joao Neves' diving header put PSG on top before Goncalo Ramos added a late fourth as the French champions climbed from 26th in the table to 22nd ... Martinez's volley. The Italian champions ...

“Now there’s a group of side benches and maybe another table for any other grandmasters. “They ought to get Nottingham's finest chess players to have a game there. “There’s just a load ...

“It was probably at the council in a cupboard. “Now there’s a group of side benches and maybe another table for any other grandmasters. “They ought to get Nottingham's finest chess players to have a ...

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World Champion D Gukesh got lucky and came back from a tough position to beat Anish Giri of Holland in the first round of the Tata Steel Masters. Receiving his Khel Ratna on Friday and then taking a ...

It's not quite like a scene from the Queen's Gambit, the popular Netflix series where Russian chess players sit at outdoor tables in Moscow Park. The only similarity is that I'm wrapped in a warm ...

But instead of delivering concrete, it’s manoeuvring giant chunks of wood to construction staff working in sub-zero winter temperatures. This is the beginning of what Swedish property developer ...

Cecilia Sala found herself in the middle of Iran’s hostage diplomacy. Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist, in Rome this month after being released from a prison in ...

This widespread use of wood set into motion a self-reinforcing cycle: craftsmen specialised in wooden construction, industries geared up to supply wooden materials, and building codes were ...