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...
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.
The teen Grandmaster from Chennai, who recently lost in the quarterfinals of the FIDE World Cup to Magnus Carlsen, has now moved ahead of Anand, who had been India's No.1 since 1986.
Chennai boy Praggnanandhaa finished 2nd after Magnus Carlsen in final round of FIDE World Cup, which is a single-elimination knockout event as opposed to World Chess Championship.
Indian players have hogged the limelight in Chess World Cup in Azerbaijan, where young GM Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa is competing in final against world no. 1 Magnus Carlsen.
The 18-year-old Indian prodigy stunned world No.3 Fabiano Caruana in the semis with a tie-breaker, advancing to the finals against world no. 1 Magnus Carlsen of Norway.
Seventeen-year-old Gukesh is now top-ranked Indian player in FIDE live rankings & world No. 9. Trained at WestBridge Anand Chess Academy, he started playing at age of 7.
Chess prodigy Raunak Sidhwani is not intimidated to play with the best of the best of the sport. He has Russian Grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi on his team.
Fauja Singh, 114, died after being hit by a speeding car. His death renews questions about India’s deadly roads, rising accidents, and poor traffic discipline.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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