India has all probability of producing youngest Grandmaster: HarikaIndian Grandmaster D Harika projects that the quickly lowering age for becoming the youngest Grandmaster could soon be broken by an Indian....
PM Modi meets chess players, hails India's historic double gold triumphPrime Minister Narendra Modi praised India's young chess players for their historic gold medal wins at the 45th Chess Olympiad in Budapest....
"Can call it a Golden Era for India in chess": Vidit Gujarathi after winning Chess Olympiad 2024India's men's and women's chess teams secured gold medals at the FIDE Chess Olympiad 2024 in Budapest. Vidit Gujrathi highlighted the team'...
Hail Kings and Queens of 64 Squares: Indian men and women win maiden Chess Olympiad gold medalsGrandmaster and World Championship challenger Gukesh beat Vladimir Fedoseev, while Erigaisi prevailed over Jan Subelj. Even if the Indians ...
Chess Olympiad: Indian men beat Iran to inch closer to gold; women shocked by PolandThe Indian men's team achieved a dominant 3.5-0.5 victory over Iran, strengthening their lead in the Open section of the 45th Chess Olympia...
Chess Olympiad: Indian men crush Azerbaijan, women beat KazakhstanThe Indian men's chess team, led by D Gukesh and Arjun Erigaise, secured a 3-1 victory over Azerbaijan in the fifth round of the 45th Chess...
Indian men crush Azerbaijan, women smell victory against KazakhstanIndia's men's chess team, led by D Gukesh and Arjun Erigaise, secured a victory against Azerbaijan in the fifth round of the 45th Chess Oly...
Vaishali becomes GM, joins Praggnanandhaa to form world's first brother-sister Grandmasters duoThe 22-year old Chennai-based Vaishali crossed the 2500 mark at the tournament in Spain where she defeated Turkish FM Tamer Tarik Selbes in...
Indian men and women's chess teams clinch silver medalsTop seeds Arjun Erigaisi, D Gukesh, Vidit Gujrathi, and Harikrishna Pentala all won their matches against their Filipino counterparts while...
Asian Games: Indian men's, women's teams breeze past opponents in Round 3 of ChessThe Indian men's and women's chess teams had successful outings in the third round of the Asian Games. The top-seeded men's team defeated K...
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...
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...
India, Russia declared joint winners of Online Chess Olympiad after server malfunctionRussia were initially declared winners after two Indian players -- Nihal Sarin and Divya Deshmukh -- lost out on time in the final after su...
World champion Viswanathan Anand back in open tournament after 23 yearsHaving last played an open tournament in 1993 at the Biel Interzonal, Anand's comeback to this highly unpredictable format was announced la...
Koneru Humpy crushes Galliamova; D Harika beats KosteniukOn what turned out to be her fifth victory in as many games, top seeded Humpy remained on course for her maiden world title and her form.
- Dhoni conferred on Khel Ratna, Arjuna to 11 others
M S Dhoni has become the second cricketer, after Sachin Tendulkar, to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, the country's highest spor...