Category: Chess

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

No sport is perhaps driven by computer technology and the internet as much as chess. Therefore, it is not surprising that one man’s experiments in a new computer programming language … Read More

And then there were none. India started out with 24 participants at the Chess World Cup. Among them were the top three seeds. And there were another two in the … Read More

Arjun Erigaisi, the last Indian left at the ongoing Chess World Cup in Goa, went down to China’s Wei Yi in the quarterfinals on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: Michal Walusza/FIDE … Read More

Of the four semifinal spots, only one has been claimed yet. The battle for the other three could very well see some bloodbath in the tie-breakers. That is because all … Read More

Former Sports Minister Anurag Singh Thakur believes it is important that India should bid and host the Olympics. “We are a country of 1.4 billion people and the world’s fourth … Read More

Former Sports Minister Anurag Singh Thakur believes it is important that India should bid and host the Olympics. “We are a country of 1.4 billion people and the world’s fourth … Read More

Fifty-nine minutes. Thirty-one moves. That was all it took, Arjun Erigaisi, to draw the first game of the quarterfinals against China’s Wei Yi at the Chess World Cup at Resort … Read More

Arjun Erigaisi was the only Indian left in the ongoing Chess World Cup in Goa at the end of the fifth round on Sunday. After a draw in the first … Read More

Down to the last eight it is at the Chess World Cup. And only one of them is Indian. P. Mexico’s Jose Martinez Alcantara knocked out P. Harikrishna in the … Read More