Host Qatar and Fifa have revealed the official mascot for Fifa World Cup 2022. La’eeb looks like a flying sheikh or Casper in a keffiyeh, carrying a football. But long before mascots became a di...
R. Praggnanandhaa, the young Indian Grandmaster, emerged winner in the Norway Chess Group A open chess tournament in Stavanger with 7.5 points from nine rounds.
The 16-year old, who was the top-seed,...
Filmmaker Aanand L Rai says his upcoming biopic on five-time world chess grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand will trace the sports icon's personal journey. Rai said he is excited to bring the life stor...
Thirteen. That’s the number of minutes Viswanathan Anand spoke about reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen during the 25-minute conversation at the National Library.
The Norwegian’s hung...
The Tata Steel Chess India — Rapid & Blitz 2021 begins on November 17 and the tournament’s ambassador, five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand, has promised to be “all over th...
Five-time world Champion Viswanathan Anand will lead India in the second online chess Olympiad, scheduled from September 8-15.
The Indian team had shared the title with Russia in the last edition and...
DropoutsThough Indians are reigning at the junior level, the same cannot be said for the senior level. The Indian chess community has a problem of dropouts. Guttula says top junior Indian players tak...
Chess and mathematics go back a long way if you go by the famous story of the maharaja and his courtier, the inventor of Chaturanga, the Sanskrit name for chess. This is a story that has travelled the...
Indian Grandmaster Koneru Humpy claimed the World Women’s Rapid Chess Championship title after drawing the Armageddon game against Lei Tingjie of China here.The 32-year-old Indian made a stunning co...