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At just 16, chess prodigy Abhimanyu Mishra makes history by defeating world champion D Gukesh

American teenager became the youngest ever to defeat a reigning world champion in classical chess, outplaying Gukesh in 61 moves during Round 5 encounter at the Grand Swiss.

ThePrint Quiz, 20 July, 2025: International Chess Day

Think you can score 10/10 in a quiz about chess? As the world observes International Chess Day, test your knowledge of the game in this edition of ThePrint Quiz.

D Gukesh to R Vaishali, upcoming documentary captures the teens behind India’s chess prodigies

Comedian Biswa Kalyan Rath joined hands with Dopamine Media co-founder Prashant Raj to create ‘Candidates: India’s Chess Story’, which is currently being edited and is set to release early next year.

Why X users are congratulating Nirmala Sitharaman over world chess champion D Gukesh’s win

At just 18, D Gukesh has claimed the World Chess Championship title by defeating China's Ding Liren, making a whopping Rs 11.45 crore in prize money.

Vishwanathan Anand put India on the chess map. D Gukesh shows we’re playing the endgame

New Delhi: In 2017, an 11-year-old Gukesh Dommaraju shyly told ChessBase’s Sagar Shah about his dream of becoming the youngest world chess champion. On 12 December, that...

D Gukesh’s ‘stunning ascent to the pinnacle of chess’ & Adani as a ‘symbol of India’s global soft power’

Other global media reports hail chess champion Gukesh Dommaraju as 'Chennai prodigy' and call his victory 'dramatic'. The Economist discusses cricket as a diplomatic tool.

‘Living my dream’: Gukesh is youngest world chess champion, 2nd Indian after Anand to hold title

18-yr-old Gukesh won world chess championship by defeating China's Liren after 58 moves in nail-biting 14th round. 'Every chess player wants to live this dream,' he said later.

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India is the world’s first successful poor democracy

Most poor countries that experimented with democracy failed to sustain it. While some collapsed into military rule, others slid into one-party states or ethnic autocracies.

RBI opens door to urban co-op bank licences after 2 decades. But high capital bar may shut most out

Proposal to restart licensing is welcome, but Rs 300-crore minimum capital requirement could mean only handful of credit societies qualify, say sector executives

From action near Myanmar to hand-to-hand combat in Kishtwar, meet this year’s gallantry award winners

Overall, President Droupadi Murmu has approved Gallantry awards to 70 armed forces personnel, including six posthumous, on the eve of 77th Republic Day.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.