HarenVantika Agrawal interview: Arjuna Awardee targets grandmaster title, top 10 spot in 2025
Over the past few months, Vantika Agrawal has delivered hits that could easily end up on a career highlight reel. Those moments of magic in the final months of 2024…
Magnus Carlsen arrives one minute late for 3-min game, says he was buying new pair of jeans | Chess News
Magnus Carlsen made a fashionably late entry into round 1 of the World Blitz Championship at New York’s Wall Street on Monday and said one of the reasons was that…
2024 was India’s year in chess, and reigning deities like Gukesh and Arjun Erigaisi have only just started
There has been plenty of seismic activity in chess over the past couple of years. But the tremors emanating from the epicentre — India — have truly shaken up the…
Arjun Erigaisi interview: Being World No 3 or reaching 2800 do feel good but don’t matter that much
Earlier this month, Arjun Erigaisi stepped on Mount 2800, touching the elusive classical ratings barrier in chess that only 16 grandmasters have touched in history. At 21 years of age,…
Arjun Erigaisi reaches 2800 rating mark: Explaining significance of 21-year-old crossing elusive milestone
Arjun Erigaisi finds himself breathing rarefied air. On Friday, he scaled Mount 2800 in the live ratings and put himself in contention to stay there when FIDE publishes its official…
Arjun Erigaisi enters elusive 2800 club in live ratings, becomes only 2nd Indian after Vishy Anand to reach elusive club
Arjun Erigaisi made history late on Thursday by breaking into the elusive 2800 rating club in the live ratings at the European Chess Club Cup. In history, only 16 players…
How India came to dominate the chessboard | Chess News
At the felicitation function for the Indian chess contingent, back from the Budapest Olympiad with four individual golds and the team golds, grandmaster Abhijit Kunte had an anecdote to share…
Chess Olympiad: How gold medallist Vantika Agarwal went from a slow starter to star performer in Budapest
Playing on the fourth board for India at the Chess Olympiad, Vantika Agrawal was crucial in her games for the women’s team to win the gold medal – a historic…
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…
CM Atishi reacts to Olympiad gold-winning chess player Tania Sachdev’s ‘lack of recognition’ comments | Chess News
On Monday Olympiad gold-winning and Arjuna awardee chess player Tania Sachdev slammed the government of Delhi for the “lack of recognition.” “Having played for India since 2008, it’s disheartening to…