Tag: Online Chess Olympiad

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 […]

New Delhi: India ensured a nerve-racking win over Poland to secure its first ever ticket to final event of Chess Olympiad. World Women Rapid Champion Koneru Humpy won a decisive Armageddon game with black against Monika Socko taking the Indian team to the final of (FIDE) International Chess Federation Online Chess Olympiad. Humpy held her […]

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: 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 […]