Category: Chess

Uzbekistan’s Javokhir Sindarov became the youngest player to win the Chess World Cup when he beat China’s Wei Yi in the final’s tiebreak in Goa on Wednesday. The 19-year-old chess … Read More

Tie-break? Bring it on. That has been the theme song at the Chess World Cup, with Wei Yi and Javokhir Sindarov singing it rather well at Resort Rio in Goa … Read More

He ended a country’s embarrassingly long wait in 2008. Abhinav Bindra, who won India’s first individual gold medal at the Beijing Olympics, believes the world’s biggest Games will have to … Read More

It was perhaps only fitting that Abhinav Bindra made the ceremonial opening move at the Chess World Cup on Monday. Like chess, shooting too is a lonely sport. It was … Read More

A cool breeze blew across Rio Resort, bringing relief to an oppressively warm Sunday evening. That comforting breeze must have done little to calm Andrey Esipenko as he came out … Read More

Javokhir Sindarov and Nodirbek Yakubboev starred in Uzbekistan’s greatest moment in chess. At the Olympiad in 2022, they played significant roles to take Uzbekistan to a stunning title, after starting … Read More

Peter Leko knew chess was big in India. But, he didn’t reckon it was big enough for people to recognise him from just his voice. The former challenger to the … Read More

The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has announced a significantly relaxed dress code for next month’s World Rapid and Blitz Championships in Doha, a year after the ‘jeansgate’ storm involving Magnus … Read More

Wei Yi stormed out of the playing hall as darkness began to fall on Resort Rio in Goa on Friday. There were a couple of children waiting for his autograph. … Read More

World Champion Gukesh D and Magnus Carlsen are part of over 360 players who have confirmed their participation in the FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship in Doha. A … Read More