A Brooklyn teenager, Jessica Hyatt, has made history by becoming the highest-rated African American female chess player.

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 ...

SINGAPORE — Gukesh Dommaraju, an 18-year-old grandmaster from India, became the youngest chess world champion in history on Thursday when he defeated Ding Liren 7½-6½ in Singapore.

A teen from India on Thursday defeated his opponent during the FIDE World Chess 2024 Championship in Singapore, becoming the world’s youngest chess champion at 18. Gukesh Dommaraju, of Chennai ...

Russian chess legend Garry Kasparov was the previous youngest world champion, winning the title in 1958 at the age of 22. Wednesday's grueling game left the series tied at 6.5.