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Indian Grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi suffered a defeat in the quarterfinal stage of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Final against Germany’s Vincent Keymer on Tuesday. Former world champion Magnus Carlsen trumped … Read More
Viswanathan Anand doesn’t play much chess these days. That shouldn’t be surprising: the five-time World champion turned 56 on Thursday. But he makes it a point to play the Global … Read More
Richard Rapport played for different teams in the first two editions of the Global Chess League. The third season is not going to be any different: he is turning out … Read More
Former world champion Magnus Carlsen outlasted Uzbekistan’s Javokhir Sindarov to reach the title clash of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Final, where he will face USA’s Levon Aronian. Sindarov pushed … Read More
On the final night of the Chess World Cup at Resort Rio, there were, so to speak, two Viswanathan Anands: the legend in person, and the winner’s trophy that FIDE … Read More
Javokhir Sindarov just couldn’t stop smiling. Or laughing. The 19-year-old’s excitement on Wednesday night was understandable. He had just won the Chess World Cup, after beating Wei Yi in a … Read More
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
