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.
The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.
It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.
If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.
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