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Grischuk isn’t surprised by India’s young talents taking the world by storm. | Photo Credit: DEBASISH BHADURI When Alexander Grischuk made his first visit to India, he was 17. He had…

On a day when decisive results proved elusive on the top three boards, Kazakhstan’s Abilmansur Abdilkhair sprang a surprise on the fourth. He defeated fourth seed Daakshin Arun to be among…

Alexander Grischuk with his Tata Steel Chess India Blitz trophy in Kolkata on Saturday, September 9, 2023. | Photo Credit: DEBASISH BHADURI Blitz chess is a frantic run against the clock.…

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave arranges his pieces at the Tata Steel Chess India rapid event on Wednesday, September 6, 2023. | Photo Credit: DEBASISH BHADURI Maxime Vachier-Lagrave will go into…

Plotting the moves: Third seed Harika will be confident of performing well with nine rounds remaining in the section. | Photo Credit: DEBASISH BHADURI It was, quite expectedly, a wild day of…

Divya’s focus will now be on the blitz event starting on Sunday. | Photo Credit: DEBASISH BHADURI Divya Deshmukh’s fairytale at the National Library had quite a fairytale ending on a wet…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with FIDE World Cup 2023 runner-up Grandmaster R. Praggnanandhaa and his parents Rameshbabu and Nagalakshmi, in New Delhi, on August 31, 2023. | Photo Credit:…

File picture of chess players Magnus Carlsen and Hans Niemann | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Norway's Magnus Carlsen and U.S. chess prodigy Hans Niemann, whom the former world champion…

They presented an unusual, but striking, sight. You normally wouldn’t expect European women in sarees on stage for the closing ceremony of a chess tournament.They may have been wearing the…

Baku lies 28 metres below sea level. No capital city in the world is situated lower. During the past one month, the Azerbaijan capital witnessed Indian chess soaring higher and higher, at…