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Global Chess League: Hikaru Nakamura, Anish Giri to join Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand as icon players in season 2
July 24, 2024 13:52 IST
The second season of the Global Chess League will be held from October 3 to 12 at Friends House in London.
How Global Chess League convinced players: Open houses, over-communication, Russian translator and presentation decks in Mandarin
July 22, 2024 08:07 IST
Global Chess League will be back for another season in October this year. In the first edition, the GCL managed a coup of sorts by getting some of the biggest names in the sport to sign up
In some years, Indian players may be playing each other for world title: Viswanathan Anand
July 18, 2024 19:01 IST
Anand, the country’s first grandmaster, spearheaded a chess revolution in the country that has seen three Indians -- Arjun Erigaisi (World No 4), D Gukesh (World No 7) and R Praggnanandhaa (World No 8) -- find a spot in the current top 10 ranks.
Indian teenager Aarav Dengla wins oldest French chess tournament moved out of Paris for Olympics
July 17, 2024 16:00 IST
The 15-year-old Dengla took the spotlight in the Masters tournament held at the Blanche de Castille High School in Villemomble outside Paris due to the upcoming Olympic Games.
Ravichandran Ashwin to be co-owner of a Global Chess League franchise
July 9, 2024 11:52 IST
In the second edition of Global Chess League, each team will play a total of 10 matches in a double round-robin format.
FIDE CEO Emil Sutovsky explains why Singapore beat Chennai and New Delhi to host Gukesh vs Ding Liren
July 3, 2024 11:23 IST
While Sutovsky revealed that Gukesh and Ding Liren have both agreed to compete at the World Championship, the final venue for the match is not confirmed yet with four locations in Singapore in the running.
Gukesh vs Ding Liren World Chess Championship match to be fought in Singapore, FIDE reveals
July 2, 2024 08:50 IST
Gukesh vs Ding Liren: The World Chess Championship match between Gukesh and Ding Liren to be held in November-December this year will be fought in Singapore, FIDE announced on Monday.
Global Chess League to hold second edition in London in October
June 28, 2024 08:16 IST
One of the highlights of the first Global Chess League season was having players like Gukesh, Pragg and Arjun being part of the same team as Magnus Carlsen and getting to learn from him.
World Junior Champion Divya Deshmukh: ‘Was expected to crush the field… but I was focussed on quality of my chess’
June 15, 2024 05:26 IST
Thanks to the victory, 18-year-old Divya also rose to the No.20 spot in the live ratings — which are updated in real-time — among women.
Arjun Erigaisi on not caring about results, being a mad man on the chess board and why elite players started giving him respect
June 12, 2024 16:42 IST
In an interview with The Indian Express, the current World No 4 Arjun Erigaisi speaks about not getting too many invites to closed elite tournaments and counters the criticism of accepting sub-par conditions to play in open tournaments
Magnus Carlsen claims victory in Norway Chess 2024; Ju Wenjun wins women’s event
June 9, 2024 08:04 IST
World champion Ding Liren ended sixth in the six-player field slumped to another defeat via the Armageddon section after holding Alireza Firouzja to a draw in the classical event.
To decide fate of World Chess Championship host, pollution will be a factor: FIDE CEO Sutovsky on Delhi’s bid
June 8, 2024 04:48 IST
Besides New Delhi, Chennai and Singapore are also in a three-city race to host the most prestigious event in chess. The world championship is scheduled to be held in November and December 2024 with the exact dates yet to be revealed.
‘Spent lot of time watching snooker videos’: Ding Liren on what he did on rest day to start playing ‘decent chess’
June 7, 2024 12:39 IST
Defeating Nakamura was not so much about lifting Ding in the standings but more about uplifting the psyche of a player whose form seemed to have deserted him.
‘Pragg defended well’: Magnus Carlsen after needing Armageddon to defeat Praggnanandhaa
June 5, 2024 12:10 IST
With two more rounds to go, 18-year-old Praggnanandhaa has clashes coming up against Caruana on Friday and Nakamura in the final round on Saturday.
‘Magnus Carlsen and Vishy Anand have (political) opinions. But they don’t want to share like Garry Kasparov’ – Carlsen’s trainer Peter Heine Nielsen’s interview
June 5, 2024 08:25 IST
In an interview with The Indian Express, Magnus Carlsen’s trainer Peter Heine Nielsen elaborates on the major difference of being triaining Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand.
Norway Chess: Ding Liren manages to hold Praggnanandhaa to draw as chess world rallies around world champion
June 5, 2024 08:25 IST
Praggnanandhaa takes on five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen on Tuesday.
Mate-in-2: Ding Liren blunders against Magnus Carlsen to lose 4th game in row at Norway Chess
June 4, 2024 08:21 IST
Carlsen says Ding has been making critical decisions quickly in games. “He doesn’t think when he needs to think… he looks miserable while playing,” said the world no 1.
Numbers back Gukesh’s bid to be youngest-ever world champion, unless the battle versus Ding Liren heads to tiebreaks
June 3, 2024 08:32 IST
Dr Mehmet Ismail, a Ph.D in Economics from Maastricht University who has crunched the numbers, says Gukesh has a 63.4 percent chance of winning the title.
Norway Chess: Praggnanandhaa takes down World No.2 Fabiano Caruana; 3 Indians break into FIDE top 10, Anand is No.11
June 3, 2024 08:32 IST
Arjun Erigaisi is the top-ranked Indian in the FIDE live ratings at No. 4, World Championship challenger Gukesh at No.7, Praggnanandhaa at No.10 and former world champion Viswanathan Anand is No.11.
Hikaru Nakamura on Ding Liren: ‘Very concerned for him against Gukesh, world champ doesn’t look right, was literally shaking’
June 3, 2024 08:32 IST
At the Norway Chess event so far, Ding has lost his last three games in the classical format itself: before losing to Nakamura, he was defeated by Alireza Firouzja (in round 4) and Fabiano Caruana (round 3).
South Indian restaurant in Norway helping Indian chess players get a slice of home
June 2, 2024 22:05 IST
One of the perks that India’s jet-setting chess players are starting to discover in their travels around the world is members of the Indian diaspora going out of their way to make the players feel at home in faraway lands.
India submit two bids for hosting World Chess Championship
June 1, 2024 14:07 IST
India's teen prodigy D Gukesh is set to take on defending champion Ding Liren of China in November-December this year.
Why computers are boring for Magnus Carlsen? ‘There’s nothing there to attack. Just a machine’
June 1, 2024 13:33 IST
Father of the five-time World Champion talks about how his son became a mentality monster, why he never enters the playing hall and how Magnus sleeps like a baby during big tournaments, unlike his anxious competitors.
Praggnanandhaa loses to relinquish lead, Ding Liren stunned and Magnus Carlsen rides luck on wild day at Norway Chess
May 31, 2024 19:42 IST
In the women’s section, Vaishali got her second win on the bounce to safely go into the first rest day as the leader.
Praggnanandhaa beats Magnus Carlsen: ‘His opening was provocative, he wanted to fight… I didn’t mind at all’
May 31, 2024 19:43 IST
18-year-old Praggnanandhaa defeats Magnus Carlsen for the first time in classical chess, that too at World No 1’s home in Norway to take sole lead in open section at Norway Chess tournament.
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