Thirty years to the day, history was repeated as Garry Kasparov defeated Viswanathan Anand in the 10th game of the Clutch Chess Legends contest to win the match with two games to spare. It was in 1995 on October 10 that Anand took a draw in the 18th game to concede the 20-game Classical World…
Grandmaster Nihal Sarin played out a quick and effortless draw with Matthias Bluebaum on Germany to share the lead with the German on six points after the end of the eighth round of FIDE Grand Swiss here. On the day when R Vaishali lost her sole lead after losing to Bibisara Assaubayeva of Kazakhstan in…
Indian Grandmaster R. Praggnanandhaa settled for his fifth consecutive draw, splitting points with Poland’s Jan-Krzysztof Duda in the sixth round of the Sinquefield Cup, part of the Grand Chess Tour. With this result, Praggnanandhaa moved to 3.5 points from six games, maintaining a joint-second position. Meanwhile, American Grandmaster Fabiano Caruana held on to his lead…
World Champion D. Gukesh returns to classical chess after a brief hiatus to face a star-studded field at the Sinquefield Cup starting on Monday, while R. Praggnanandhaa will eye a podium finish in the fifth leg of the Grand Chess Tour (GCT) to strengthen his overall fifth-place standing. While many argue that the field feels…
So Divya Deshmukh will be taking on the men at the FIDE Grand Swiss chess tournament in Uzbekistan next month. She would have stood a better chance of winning the title if she had opted to play in the women’s section of the high profile event. Instead she has chosen to start as one of…
It would be an understatement to say that Indian Grandmaster Pranav V entered the Chennai Grand Masters 2025 with the odds heavily stacked against him. The 18-year-old entered the main draw after winning the Challengers section in 2024. In the Masters event this time out, he is part of a top-class field, where he is…
British chess player Bodhana Sivanandan became the youngest female player to defeat a Grandmaster at the British Chess Championships in Liverpool on Sunday. Sivanandan defeated 60-year-old Grandmaster Peter Wells to achieve the feat. The youngster, who is a Women’s FIDE Master, was ten years, five months, and one day when she broke the record. 🇬🇧♟👏…
Over the last month, Indian Grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi has played three top-level tournaments, across three vastly different formats – freestyle at the Las Vegas Grand Slam, rapid at the Esports World Cup and classical right now at the Chennai Grand Masters 2025. Erigaisi’s experience isn’t an uncommon one. With a packed schedule where multiple formats…
Indian Grandmaster Abhimanyu Puranik was taken aback a little when he received a text message from Divya Deshmukh during the FIDE Women’s World Cup last month. “I mean, it was pretty impromptu [Divya reaching out],” said Puranik, who is currently participating in the Challengers section of the Chennai Grand Masters 2025. The two have known…
Top seed Arjun Erigaisi cruised to an easy win against the USA’s Awonder Liang in the opening round of the Chennai Grand Masters 2025 here on Thursday. Playing with white pieces, World No. 6 Erigaisi established an early advantage before chipping away at his opponent’s defence consistently. Erigaisi’s high-accuracy chess eventually got to Liang as…