HarenArjun Erigaisi loses to Praggnanandhaa to stay winless at Wijk aan Zee since 2022
Arjun Erigaisi was handed defeat in the third round of the Tata Steel chess tournament by good friend Praggnanandhaa in 60 moves. While Pragg held the upper hand in most…
Hans Niemann blunders mate-in-1 vs Ian Nepomniachtchi after winning 1st game in 18 moves
Hans Niemann and Ian Nepomniachtchi played out a spectacularly dramatic quarter-final in the play-in tournament which is being held to book the final slot in the 10-player Weissenhaus leg of…
World Rapid and Blitz: As FIDE bans sneakers, chess player vents frustration at ‘level of ignorance’
A year after she was fined 100 euros by FIDE for wearing what the organization’s arbiters deemed “sports shoes”, Dutch chess player and popular streamer Anna-Maja Kazarian has slammed the…
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…
Clash of Blames: Vladimir Kramnik defeats Jose Martinez in sequel to Clash of Claims
Former world champion Vladimir Kramnik defeated Jose Martinez in a special Clash of Blames event. Martinez is a Mexican grandmaster that the Russian had reportedly accused of cheating in online…
