The 40-year-old bookstore downtown is hanging on, but it faces numerous challenges: the internet upended the book business, ...

Though this book is new to the shelves, the concepts it presents are classic. For thousands of years, philosophers have ...

Across the street, through a series of two-story windows, the destination of my pilgrimage stands in unassuming contrast: ...

The New York Public Library celebrated the return of a copy of Igor Stravinsky's 1936 autobiography 72 years after it was last checked out.

His triumph also broke a decades-old record set by Garry Kasparov, who had been the youngest world champion at 22 in 1985. The Rise of a Chess Prodigy Born on May 29, 2006, in Chennai to a Telugu ...

The fuss around the grand master’s wearing of denim pants to a tournament is a reflection of tensions within the game.

Eighteen-year-old Indian grandmaster Dommaraju Gukesh became the youngest-ever undisputed world chess champion by defeating 32-year-old Ding Liren of China in the final game of a 14-game championship.

World Chess Champion Gukesh Dommaraju could work with ... He made history too, becoming the 18th and youngest to win the 138-year-old world championship. And he is only the second Indian and ...

With a dramatic victory Thursday in a deciding match, 18-year-old Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest person to be crowned chess’s world champion. Dommaraju broke a record set by Russia’s ...

The record was previously held by chess legend Garry Kasparov, who was 22 years old when he won his first world title in 1985. The 18-year-old is also just the second Indian player to have claimed ...

Hungry for in-person interaction, Gen Z and millennial players are joining old-fashioned chess, mahjong and backgammon groups. A meeting of the Rummikubers club in the Williamsburg section of ...