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Topic: Indian chess players

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...

‘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.

India’s 18-year-old GM D Gukesh becomes youngest world chess champion

Grand Master Gukesh becomes youngest world chess champion after beating Ding Liren of China in 14th and last game of summit clash.

Global media on the path beyond India-China détente & what’s behind ‘politicisation of Indian food’

International media also explores the power shift in the world of chess towards Asia, especially India.

D Gukesh, 17, replaces V. Anand as India’s top chess player after 37 years, ranks no. 8 in world

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.

Praggnanandhaa’s runner-up finish in FIDE World Cup & how it sets stage for World Chess Championship

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.

Something special: For Viswanathan Anand it’s a golden generation of Indian chess

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.

‘Billion Indians cheering’: Rahul Gandhi to Praggnanandhaa on entering Chess World Cup final 

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.

Meteoric rise of Gukesh, who overtook mentor Viswanathan Anand to become #1 Indian chess player

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.

Magnus Carlsen to Viswanathan Anand—India now has a Global Chess League. It’s a game-changer

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.

On Camera

India-Pakistan marriage breakdown that British can’t stop crying about

Ever since the Love Is Blind: UK episode dropped, there has been a collective meltdown online over the separation of Pakistan-origin Kal Pasha and Indian-origin Sarover Kaur Aujla.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.