The 14-game Classical World Championship match in Brissago, Switzerland, between titleholder Vladimir Kramnik and challenger Peter Leko is tied 3-3 after a draw in yesterday's sixth game. With two ...

The world chess championship match between Vladimir Kramnik of Russia and Peter Leko of Hungary will be played at Centro Danneman in Brissago, Switzerland, from Sept. 25 to Oct. 18. The 14-game ...

Peter Leko of Hungary finally has some respect. After years of being the butt of jokes because of his solid style and tendency to draw, he took first place on a tiebreaker over Classical World ...

Reigning chess world champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia held a 3.5-2.5 lead in the eight-game series of rapid matches against international grandmaster Peter Leko of Hungary, with Kramnik winning the ...

Hungarian Peter Leko moved into a tie for first place by beating Viswanathan Anand of India in the 13th round of the Linares chess tournament here Saturday when Anand misplayed a drawn ending. Tied ...

Position #5620: White to play and win. From the game Arencibia - Huerta, Mexico 2000. Solution to Position #5619: Black breaks through with 1 . . . Nxe5! 2 Nxe5 Rd2+ 3 Kg1 Ng5, threatening 4 . . .

Former world championship challenger Peter Leko speaks about chess commentary, his experience at the World Cup in Goa, facing Arjun Erigaisi, working with Vishy Anand, and memories of elite chess ...

The first world chess champion, Wilhelm Steinitz, was crowned in 1886. In the intervening century, Steinitz has had 13 successors. In the most critical game of 2004, Peter Leko, ahead of world ...

The long-reigning world champion Mikhail Botvinnik once memorably described chess as a combination of sport, art, and science. In examining the playing styles of the world’s top grandmasters, we can ...

He may have been overshadowed at times by the man whose crown he took, but former Russian world titleholder Vladimir Kramnik will go down in the annals of chess history as a class act, an underrated ...