Chennai: Former world chess champion Viswanathan Anand on Monday said India winning the gold in the FIDE Online Olympiad will have a positive impact on the way the central government looks at the game and the players. He also categorically said the Indian team was ready even for a replay of the second match against […]
Chennai: The India-Russia chess duel for the Online Olympiad gold came to a dramatic finish on Sunday with the global chess body announcing them as joint winners. The decision to declare India and Russia as joint winners was taken by FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich after an appeal made by India saying three of its players […]
Chennai: With senior commanders holding to their positions and signing peace treaties, the junior jawans of Indian chess made strategic moves to down China to enter the quarter-finals of the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad on Sunday. India thrashed China 4-2 with young chess masters R.Praggnanandhaa and Divya Deshmukh winning their respective games. On the other […]
Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday extended his heartfelt congratulations to Odisha girl Saina Salonika for bagging gold in the U-14 girls’ category of the Commonwealth Chess Championship held in New Delhi. Applauding the achievement of the Women’s FIDE Master (WFM), the Chief Minister in a twitter message said, “Congratulations to Saina Salonika on […]
Moscow: Indian Grand Master Pentala Harikrishna registered his first win of the Moscow FIDE Grand Prix after he got better of English GM Michael Adams here. The Hyderabadi playing with white pieces on Tuesday night took the aggressive route from the word go and the Englishman could not do much and wilted under the pressure […]
Bhubaneswar: India bagged a silver and a bronze medal at the FIDE World Junior Chess Championships held at the KIIT University campus here. While PV Nidhia bagged a silver medal in the girl’s event, Sundil Dutta Narayan won a bronze medal in the boys’ segment. Jiyong Jaferi of USA became the champion in boy’s category […]
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