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Chess Candidates Tournament 2024 Live Updates: All five Indians end opening rounds in draws
April 5, 2024 05:27 IST
FIDE Chess Candidates 2024 Live Updates: India's R Praggnanandhaa, D Gukesh and Vidit Gujrathi are in the Open category while Koneru Humpy and R Vaishali are in the women's section. Round 2 games will be start from midnight on Saturday.
Candidates chess first impressions: Vishy Anand’s influence, Hikaru Nakamura the streamer, Pragg’s revelation and more
April 4, 2024 23:56 IST
FIDE Chess Candidates 2024: First impressions of the Candidates contenders ahead of the first round.
Hippos drowning in swamps, dinner plans: What do chess players think of when they allow their mind to wander during games
April 5, 2024 06:22 IST
When a classical game stretches on for 5 or 6 hours, chess players allow the occasional butterfly of whimsical distraction to fly into the dungeon of their minds. Here are the oddest thoughts chess players like Tal, Anand, Gukesh, Vachier-Lagrave and Grischuk entertained in the middle of games.
Why Candidates is a tournament of immense difficulty in the world of chess
April 5, 2024 00:00 IST
Candidates chess tournament has always been a winner-takes-all event. But the stakes are even higher for this year's contenders, thanks to Magnus Carlsen and Ding Liren.
Why former World Champion Magnus Carlsen thinks Indian grandmasters are not going to win the Candidates
April 5, 2024 02:25 IST
Magnus Carlsen says Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana are co-favourites to win the Candidates; 'I don't think Pragg is ready to win the tournament," Carlsen said.
Candidates chess tournament: How Gukesh prepared for his bid to become youngest ever World Championship finalist
April 5, 2024 00:00 IST
India’s 17-year-old phenom D Gukesh is bidding to become the youngest ever World Championship finalist with help of five-member team, plenty of insights from mentor Vishy Anand and new-found attitude
Chess Candidates: R Praggnanandhaa focusing on opening preparations, physical fitness
April 5, 2024 00:19 IST
Praggnanandhaa's coach RB Ramesh tells The Indian Express ahead of the Candidates chess tournament, "I’m proud to see that Pragg has come this far, but I don’t think this is his best. The best I believe is yet to come."
‘Future of chess is in India’: At Candidates 2024, India ready to flex muscle on chess board
April 5, 2024 00:19 IST
Magnus Carlsen has said that if any of the three Indian debutants win the open Candidates, “it would be a shock”. But for Indian chess, having five contenders in a 16-player field itself is a sign that the future is bright.
Chess: India has a new No 1 as Arjun Erigaisi climbs to No 9 in the world
April 2, 2024 08:05 IST
The Candidates 2024 troika of 18-year-old Praggnanandhaa R, 17-year-old Gukesh D and Vidit Santosh Gujrathi round up the top 5 Indians in the latest FIDE ratings.
Viswanathan Anand trains for Candidates 2024 commentary gig with funny voice training
April 5, 2024 00:04 IST
Viswanathan Anand posted a video showing him doing various comical voice training and throat exercises before ending with a tongue twister.
Interview: Vidit Gujrathi gives new wings to old dream at Candidates – of chess books, and being a classical player in the Virat Kohli mouldSubscriber Only
April 1, 2024 08:04 IST
Vidit Gujrathi is one of the three players from India who will feature in the 8-man candidate's tournament to challenge China's Ding Liren for the world title
Pragg, Gukesh, Vidit, Vaishali, Humpy: Here’s all you need to know about Candidates Chess 2024 and India’s challenge
April 4, 2024 12:26 IST
Candidates Chess Tournament 2024: Quick guide to 2024's biggest chess tournament, including full schedule for all five Indian players, why Magnus Carlsen isn't playing, the prize money and dress code for the players
Chess: Magnus Carlsen’s freestyle tournament’s next stop is India, here’s what you need to know
March 16, 2024 17:38 IST
For the India leg in November, there will be a whopping $500,000 (approximately Rs 4 crore) on offer as prize money. The idea is to have a series of five tournaments per year, ideally on five different continents, organisers said.
Are pre-arranged draws in chess same as match-fixing? Former world champion Vladimir Kramnik weighs in
March 9, 2024 18:03 IST
Former world champion Vladimir Kramnik has claimed on social media that most top-level players have resorted to playing out draws at one point or another
Garry Kasparov, the rebel who challenged authority at every step and did not want to limit his legacy to the 64 squares
March 8, 2024 16:52 IST
Garry Kasparov was added by Russia to list of ‘terrorists and extremists’ on Wednesday.
Chess legend Gary Kasparov, critic of Russian regime and President Vladimir Putin, added to state list of ‘terrorists and extremists’: Report
March 7, 2024 19:31 IST
Kasparov’s name was added to the list by Rosfinmonitoring, a Russian watchdog that is responsible for combatting money laundering and terror financing.
Candidates 2024 to start with India vs India clashes as Gukesh takes on Vidit Gujrathi and Vaishali meets Koneru Humpy
March 5, 2024 13:37 IST
As per the Open Candidates draw, Praggnanandhaa and Gukesh will face off in the second round while Vidit and Praggnanandhaa will battle in the third round.
Candidates tournament 2024: Anxious wait for Canadian visas for 4 Indian chess stars; 3 Russians also affected
March 3, 2024 22:16 IST
Five Indian chess players will be competing at the Candidates this year. Two of the inner-circle members of India’s Candidates contenders which The Indian Express reached out to said that they had provided their biometrics for visa a couple of months back, but were yet to hear back
Who’s Ashwath Kaushik, 8-year-old Indian-origin boy who became the youngest chess player to defeat a grandmaster?
February 21, 2024 16:41 IST
Kaushik was born in India but has been living in Singapore for the past 6 years. He first came into the limelight when he won triple gold in the Under-8 category of the Eastern Asian Youth Championship in 2022 when he was just 6.
Magnus Carlsen takes on Ding Liren in a radical ‘freestyle chess’ format for 1st time after giving up crown
February 9, 2024 19:06 IST
BONUS QUIZ + INTERACTIVE: Scroll down and take a look at the position from Game 6 of the World Chess Championship 2023. With his 41st move, Ding Liren moved a harmless-looking piece. A few moves later, it helped him throttle Ian Nepomniachtchi’s king and deliver checkmate. Can you figure out what the move was?
Four years into Soviet Union-style chess academy, Viswanathan Anand’s students shine bright: ‘Always available for them’
February 8, 2024 22:28 IST
BONUS QUIZ + INTERACTIVE: The first time Anand and Gukesh played each other in a tournament, at the SuperUnited Rapid and Blitz in 2023, the 17-year-old won after 40 moves. But can you think like a prodigy and figure out which move from Gukesh forced a resignation?
Pakistan gets its first Grandmaster after Mian Sultan Khan given honorary title posthumously
February 7, 2024 09:08 IST
Sultan Khan famously defeated ex-world champion José Raúl Capablanca. He also held former world champions Alexander Alekhine and Max Euwe to draws.
Hans Niemann in new controversy: Banned by St Louis Chess Club for ‘damaging property, rude comments’Sign In to read
February 4, 2024 17:24 IST
Hans Niemann, in a series of posts on social media, admitted he broke TV remotes, a lamp, an ironing board at a hotel room. Additionally, he said, the glass frame of a painting in his room was "shattered" by his actions.
Budget 2024: Why did Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman mention Magnus Carlsen and Praggnanandhaa in her speech?Sign In to read
February 1, 2024 20:40 IST
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was presenting the Interim Budget 2024 in the Lok Sabha on Thursday when she mentioned teenaged chess prodigy R Praggnanandhaa.
After Divya Deshmukh’s post on women in chess, Susan Polgar speaks out: ‘I consciously chose to look ugly’Sign In to read
January 31, 2024 10:06 IST
18-year-old International Master Divya Deshmukh had called out sexism in chess earlier by pointing out how fans are fixated on shallow aspects when talking about her, unlike when talking about male chess players.
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