INTERVIEW: India’s grand chess plan – ‘Rating system parallel to FIDE’s, 10 lakh player registration, more super tournaments’

The historic double gold for India’s Open and Women’s teams at the Olympiad shifted the power equation in world chess and put the country’s GenNext players in the limelight. All…

Indian chess federation left red-faced as Chess Olympiad’s Nona Gaprindashvili Cup, given to India at Chennai 2022, goes missing

IN WHAT could become a major embarrassment for India, the ‘Nona Gaprindashvili Cup’, which is awarded to the best performing contingent at the Chess Olympiad, is learnt to have been…