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Panaji: Reigning world junior champion Pranav V sent his good friend Aryan Tari from Norway packing from the World Cup to qualify for the third round here. A day after he fared slightly poorly in the second classical game, Pranav utilised the rapid tiebreaks to outplay former world junior champion and five-time Norwegian champ Tari…
Vidit Gujrathi (Pic Credit – Michal Walusza|FIDE) NEW DELHI: In a gripping day of rapid battles at the FIDE World Cup 2025 on Thursday, India’s Grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi finally broke through the defences of Argentina’s 12-year-old sensation Faustino Oro to secure a spot in the third round. Joining him in the next stage were young…
Diptayan Ghosh eliminates from the World Cup Ian Nepomniachtchi (X-Europe Echecs) Panaji: Two-time Candidates champion Ian Nepomniachtchi will now probably realise why the top three ranked players in the world skipped the Chess World Cup in Goa. The 35-year-old top-ranked Russian GM, seeded 12 here, got a taste of the strength of Indian chess.India’s unseeded…
Two queen sacrifices by India’s two veteran GMs fetched vastly different results. P. Harikrishna came up with a miniature against Arseniy Nesterov and won in just 21 moves to advance to the third round of the Chess World Cup at Rio Resort in Goa on Wednesday. However, Surya Shekhar Ganguly could not justify his dynamic…
Ian Nepomniachtchi vs Diptayan Ghosh India’s Grandmaster (GM) Diptayan Ghosh pulled off the biggest upset of the ongoing World Chess Cup, stunning former world championship challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia in the second game of their second-round clash on Wednesday. Playing with the black pieces, the Indian grandmaster capitalised on his opponent’s erratic play and…
Ilamparthi AR became India’s 90th Grandmaster at the age of 16. NEW DELHI: The year was 2022. The Tamil Nadu Chess Association had organised a camp in Pollachi for the state’s strongest junior players, those who had qualified for the junior nationals. Ilamparthi, then only 13, wasn’t one of them. Yet, clutching his grandfather’s hand,…
Reigning World Champion D Gukesh and Abhimanyu Mishra of the USA — the youngest Grandmaster in chess history (Image credit: FIDE File) Panaji: At 12 years, 4 months and 25 days, Abhimanyu Mishra, an Indian-origin player from the US, became the youngest chess Grandmaster in the world. At 10, he was the youngest International Master…
Panaji: Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand responded to the death of Daniel Naroditsky by assuring action over “unfounded allegations” made by Vladimir Kramnik without significant evidence.Former world champion Kramnik, who won the title from Garry Kasparov in 2000 and then lost it to Anand in 2008, has been the most prolific cheat proclaimer in recent…
World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen, widely regarded as the greatest chess player of his generation, is absent from the FIDE Chess World Cup 2025, hosted in Goa, India, from October 30 to November 27. The Norwegian five-time world champion, who won the World Cup back in 2023, last claimed the World Championship title in 2021…
Panaji: When India last hosted the Chess World Cup in 2002, Viswanathan Anand emerged as the champion. As the tournament returns home, this time in Goa, the trophy has been renamed as the Viswanathan Anand Cup, a fitting honour for someone who revolutionised the sport in the country.The FIDE World Cup will be held in…
