All eyes on India ahead of the 44th Chess OlympiadThough the five-time world champion and legendary Viswanathan Anand has chosen not to play and donned the mentor's hat this time, the India...
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,...
Viswanathan Anand, Yuzvendra Chahal take part in online chess event, raise Rs 8.8 lakh for waste pickers communityThe fund raised from the event will be donated to the Chief Minister's Fund.
Viswanathan Anand learnt chess basics from his mother!The former world champion says that his job becomes very stressful during tournaments and the game needs continuous practise.
Indian men win Asian Nations Cup Chess tournamentIndian men won the Asian Nations Cup Chess tournament with a 3-1 victory over Vietnam in the final round as they pushed China down to secon...
Former world champion Viswanathan Anand ends on positive note but far from podiumAnand scored 9.5 points in all and the reason was his mediocre results on the first two days when he scored just 2.5 and three points from ...
Viswanathan Anand suffers two more losses; needs a miracle in World RapidViswanathan Anand suffered two more losses at the hands of Rauf Mamedov and Denis Khismatullin and will now need a miracle for a turnaround...
Viswanathan Anand eyes the world title in rapid and blitz chessWorld champion in all formats, Magnus Carlsen of Norway starts as the top seed and hot favourite to retain his titles won last year at Duba...
Harikrishna, Sethuraman win in World Chess CupGrandmaster S P Sethuraman also scored an easy victory over Russian Sanan Sjugirov in the first game of the first round of this knock-out e...
P Harikrishna look to get off to good start at World Cup openerGrandmaster P Harikrishna will look to put his best foot forward when he meets Max Illingworth of Australia in the first round of the World...
Viswanathan Anand losses in World Championship but good year for Indian chessFive-time winner Viswanathan Anand lost his bid in the Sochi World Championship but Indian men's team clinched a historic bronze at 41st Ol...
Abhijeet Gupta beats Libiszewski, jumps to joint fifth in QatarApart from Gupta only Aravindh Chithambaram and B Adhiban were the only Indians who ended on the winning side in the third round
Indian men clinch historic bronze in Chess OlympiadThe Chinese scored a 3-1 victory over Poland in the last round, taking their tally to 19 match points out of a possible 22.
41st Chess Olympiad: India targets podium finish; to bank on good result and luckThe Indians start a favourite for their tie against Uzbekistan, but they need to hold the first two boards together in the crunch game.
Sasikiran keeps India in hunt for historic podium finish at 41st Chess OlympiadSasikiran's wins against Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu set the tone for what could be the first ever Olympiad medal for India.
41st Chess Olympiad: Viswanathan Anand, Koneru Humpy missing but Indian team in high spiritThe chance of an encore for the Indian eves or bettering their performance will heavily rely on the performance by Harika and Tania Sachdev.