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…
World champion D Gukesh’s struggles continued as he slumped to a third successive defeat, losing to 16-year-old Turkish Grandmaster Ediz Gurel in the seventh round of the FIDE Grand Swiss in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on Thursday. Coming off reverses to USA’s Abhimanyu Mishra and Nikolas Theodorou of Greece, the rest day did little to arrest Gukesh’s…
Grandmaster R. Vaishali stayed in front after a draw with Dinara Wagner of Germany but was joined by Kateryna Lagno of Russia in the lead after the end of the fourth round of FIDE Women’s Grand Swiss in Uzbekistan’s Samarkand on Sunday. Lagno defeated Yuxin Song of China with white pieces, and it will be…
India’s top-ranked Grandmaster R. Pragganandhaa will be keen to seal his Candidates 2026 berth, taming a strong field in the FIDE Grand Swiss that begins in Samarkand on Wednesday. The 11-round tournament, which carries a total prize pool of $6,25,000 (Rs. 5.50 crore) in the open section and $2,30,000 (Rs. 2.02 crore) in the women’s…