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A nine-year-old chess prodigy is set to make history as the youngest person ever to represent England internationally in any sport. Bodhana Sivanandan, from Harrow, north-west London, will join ...

O’Neil, Toby 1995. A measure with a large set of tangent measures. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 123, Issue. 7, p. 2217.

The Kremlin said on Monday that a decision by the general assembly of FIDE, the governing body of chess, to uphold a ban on Russian and Belarusian players was the result of Western and Ukrainian ...

Members of Pakistan's chess contingent held India's flag at 2024 Olympiad. The video of the incident has gone viral. Artificial Intelligence, an upcoming birthday, and the ambition to make India a ...

Iran is big. At 636,000 square miles, it’s 20 times the size of Ireland. Its population is 90 million. It has the world’s ...

Two landmark exhibitions reveal how Europe’s big institutions are rethinking their collections for the 21st century ...

The International Chess Federation (FIDE) says it is temporarily banning transgender women from competing in its women's events. The FIDE said individual cases would require "further analysis" and ...