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FIDE World Cup 2025 to be held in Goa from October 30 to November 27Goa, India, will host the FIDE World Cup 2025 from October 31 to November 27, featuring 206 players competing for a $2 million prize pool a...- Delhi GM Open offers prize purse of Rs 1.21 croreThe 21st Delhi International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament is set to take place in New Delhi from June 7-14, attracting over 2,500 pla...
- AICF announces Rs 3.2 crore rewards for Olympiad-winning teamsThe All India Chess Federation announced Rs 3.2 crore in rewards for the Indian teams that won the 45th Chess Olympiad. Each player will re...
- R Praggnanandhaa, Arjun Erigaisi, and D Gukesh: Indian Chess makes history with three players in World top 10, four in top 11Indian chess reaches a historic milestone as Arjun Erigaisi, D Gukesh, and R Praggnanandhaa secure positions in the world's top 10 FIDE rat...
- FIDE makes urgent appeal to Canada to issue visas to players for CandidatesFIDE urges Canada to process visa applications for the Candidates event in Toronto. Concerns over timely arrival of players. Indians compet...
- India has entered golden era of chess, we will have 100 GMs soon, says AICF chief Sanjay KapoorTeenaged GM Praggnanandhaa caught the country's imagination as he defeated world number two Hikaru Nakamura and number three Fabiano Caruna...
- Praggnanandhaa, Gukesh in Kolkata Asian Games camp from Aug 30The Asian Games-bound Indian men's chess team, which includes World Cup silver medallist GM Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa along with three othe...
- Humpy, Harika to spearhead India's challenge in Asian Games; chess league in country planned in DecemberIndia will send a 10-member chess team, including Koneru Humpy and Dronavalli Harika, to the upcoming Asian Games in Hangzhou. The men's te...
- Koneru Humpy, Dronavalli Harika to spearhead India's challenge in Asian GamesThe team announcement was made on Sunday during the General Body meeting of the All India Chess Federation (AICF) in Kanpur, which was chai...
- India has improved its performance in Chess in last eight years: PM ModiHighlighting India's contributions in the invention of games like Chaturanga and Chess, the PM said that these games help the brain to refi...
- India plans to host Chess Olympiad that's been moved out of MoscowThe Chess Olympiad is a biennial event in which teams from some 190 countries compete over a two-week period. The 2022 edition was supposed...
- Legendary Anand to mentor Indian chess players ahead of Asian GamesThe probable for the men's include, Vidit Gujarathi, P Harikrishna, Nihal Sarin, S L Narayanan, K Sasikiran, B Adhiban, Karthikeyan Murali,...
- Mitrabha Guha becomes India's 72nd Grand MasterThe Kolkata player had scored his second GM norm at the Sheikh Russel GM tournament in Bangladesh a fortnight ago and had also crossed the ...
- Sankalp Gupta becomes India's 71st GM, maestro Anand congratulatesSankalp Gupta won five games, drew three and lost one to Rudik Makrarian (Russia) to take the second place with 6.5 points in the GM tourna...
- Checkmate COVID: Anand and 4 other GMs to play exhibition matches to raise COVID relief fundAny player who has a Chess.com blitz or FIDE standard rating of under 2000 can play with former world champion Viswanathan Anand by donatin...
- India to bid for Chess Olympiad, start game's professional league"We want India to become the chess destination for the world. We have drawn out a detailed plan to achieve this goal," All India Chess Fede...
- Happy that Chess is back in Asian Games: Vishwanathan AnandChess was a part of Asian Games programme at the 2006 edition in Doha and 2010 in Guangzhou.
- AICF wants inclusion of sports infrastructure in smart citiesVijay Kumar Malhotra today urged the Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu to include sports infrastructure in the master plan of propo...
- Jayalalitha grants Rs 29 crore for World ChampionshipsJayalalitha today granted Rs 29 cr for conducting the World Championship after an MOU was signed between All India Chess Federation and FIDE
- Govt unveils Rs 50,000 crore programme for farmersIn an apparent bid to woo the farmers in an election year, government today announced a massive Rs 50,000 crore, three-year programme to bu...
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