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International Chess Day 2025: Know the significance, history, theme and objectivesInternational Chess Day (Google Trends): International Chess Day, observed annually on July 20th, commemorates the founding of FIDE in 1924...- Chess, a chequered Islamic past & present: Banned by Taliban, backed by Saudi as it hosts its debut WCThe Taliban recently suspended chess in Afghanistan. Chess faced bans previously due to religious concerns. Ironically, Islamic world has a...
- Gukesh Dommaraju's triumph heralds '83 moment' for chessGukesh Dommaraju's World Chess Champion title has boosted chess's popularity in India. Livestream records have been set, and platforms like...
- Knights of Samarkand: Inside the thriving chess scene in Uzbekistan, India's upcoming great rivalIn the great game of chess, Uzbekistan will be India’s rival in the foreseeable future. Young girls and grizzled men duel over chess boards...
- Grandmasters, some AI-augmented chess?Elon Musk has stirred up debate by predicting that artificial intelligence (AI) will 'solve' chess within a decade. Currently, no machine c...
- The future is here: Accolades pour in for Gukesh after historic winIndia's D Gukesh has been hailed as a potential future world champion after winning the prestigious Candidates tournament in Toronto. The 1...
- Grandmaster Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa makes India proud: Anand Mahindra, Snapdeal boss Kunal Bahl laud chess prodigyIndian chess prodigy Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa has reached the final of the FIDE World Cup after defeating Fabiano Caruana. He will now fac...
- Souvenirs de France: Here is a list of presents PM Modi received from the French PrezFrench President Emmanuel Macron presented Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with several gifts during his official visit to France, incl...
- French President Macron gifts Modi Proust's novels, replica of Charlemagne chessmenMacron also gifted Modi a series of novels - A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) - by Marcel Proust published between 19...
- What chess tells us about our inventionsIn the world rankings, India stands fourth and third in the men's and women's game (why there are two categories for a 'mind game' is somet...
- Chess Olympiad in India: See detailsFor more such web stories click on the ET icon below.
- 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...
- Russia will support India in a stand-off against ally China. Here's whyNot that sentiment plays no role in relations between nations. It does. The immense soft power that the West wields over nations like India...
- View: Behaviourally informed health communication strategies can help improve Covid complianceEGB is the psychological phenomenon due to which people tend to linearise the growth path of a process that grows exponentially. It is part...
- Playing old games in modern avatars: How startups can tap into the indoor games segmentEven the most avid fans of online games must be tiring of them by now and creative minds could do with some fodder.
- Ancient board games win Bengaluru hearts; ludo, chaupar, snakes-and-ladders are favouritesSimpler games cost between Rs 100 and Rs 150, the more elaborate ones cost more.
- How a change in Iran's geoeconomics & geopolitics in near future could affect India?Iran is the 26th largest economy in the world in terms of nominal GDP and 17th in terms of purchasing power parity globally.
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