Search For "chess"
Norway Chess, Round 8: Praggnanandhaa, Vaishali hold on to draws; Humpy fa
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
It was a day of stalemates in the Norway Chess tournament with some brilliant defensive moves coming from across different matches. As the tournament nears conclusion, the results from Round 8 set the tone for a much-anticipated final two rounds. Both Norway Chess and Norway Chess Women saw
Read More
Norway Chess, Round-7: Praggnanandhaa defeats reigning World Champion Lire
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
The World Champion Ding Liren, who has been underperforming with four losses in a row, finally stopped the bleeding with a much-needed draw against India's Praggnanandhaa R. However, he missed a trick and lost the Armageddon tie-breaker, with Pragg remaining on the third spot of the standing
Read More
Grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi breaks into world top-5 in FIDE rating list
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
Arjun Erigaisi, with an ELO rating of 2769.7, has so far added 8.7 points to his tally and is only behind Magnus Carlsen of Norway, USA's Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana and Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia. He had briefly reached a career-high live rating of 2771.2 earlier this week and is
Read More
Norway Chess: R Praggnanandhaa defeats world champion Ding Liren
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
Praggnanandhaa's victory came after he defeated higher-ranked players including Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana earlier in the competition.
Read More
Norway Chess: Carlsen leads at round six end; Vaishali slips to third spot
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
The game between Ju Wenjun and Vaishali Rameshbabu was highly anticipated as it could affect the leaderboard. While the game was quite balanced until the endgame, Ju Wenjun secured a win against Vaishali when the latter went into time trouble.
Read More
"Hope you have wonderful experience...": Viswanathan Anand's message to pa
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
Former five-time world chess champion Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand told the participants to have a wonderful experience playing out there in the World Junior Chess Championship at GIFT City Club, Gandhinagar.
Read More
Anand Mahindra hails R Praggnanandhaa for beating top-two ranked players a
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
The chairman of Mahindra Group, Anand Mahindra, took to social media and hailed Indian teen chess sensation R Praggnanandhaa following his stunning victory over world number one Magnus Carlsen and world number two Fabiano Caruana at the ongoing Norway Chess competition.
Read More
"You're on a roll": Gautam Adani lauds Praggnanandhaa for beating top-two
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
Indian teenage chess sensation R Pragananadhaa continued with his dominating ways in the ongoing Norway Chess competition as he defeated the world number two player Fabiano Caruana in round five in a classical chess game on Saturday night.
Read More
Norway Chess: R Pragananadhaa stuns world number two, achieves unique feat
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
With this victory, he defeated both world number one Magnus Carlsen of Norway and the world number two Caruana in classic chess for the first time ever.
Read More
Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand to inaugurate World Junior Chess Championshi
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
Former five-time world chess champion Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand will inaugurate the World Junior Chess Championship at GIFT City Club, Gandhinagar on Sunday.
Read More
Norway Chess, Round 4: Vaishali extends lead; Praggnanandhaa, Humpy suffer
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Just a day after registering his first classical win over the five-time World Champion Magnus Carlsen, India's star prodigy Praggnanandhaa R went down against America's Hikaru Nakamura in Round 4 of the Norway Chess 2024 at the SpareBank 1 SR-Bank on Thursday.
Read More
Brother-sister duo of Praggnanandhaa, Vaishali lead Norway Chess 2024 afte
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Praggnanandhaa's sister Vaishali held the top spot in the women's competition, with 5.5 points
Read More