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Pranav Venkatesh, the World Junior Chess Champion, has his sights set on becoming the World Chess Champion. The 18-year-old from Chennai balances chess with academics and enjoys cricket.
Newly crowned world chess champion D Gukesh received a hero’s welcome from Chennai Super Kings at the MA Chidambaram Stadium and shared a special moment with veteran spinner Ravichandran Ashwin.
Sri Chaitanya Educational Group has onboarded Gukesh Dommaraju - Indian Chess Grandmaster and World Chess Champion, as its brand ambassador. This partnership aligns with Sri Chaitanya’s and ...
Chinese grandmaster Ju Wenjun secured her fifth consecutive Women’s World Chess Championship on Wednesday, defeating compatriot Tan Zhongyi in this year’s final. Her win in Chongqing ...
Already a five-time chess champion at age 22, Pitcher said she’d taken a break from playing chess for three years during middle school because she “didn’t want to be seen as the nerd.” ...
The Nigeria Chess Federation has announced that it will host the International Chess Federation Zone 4.2 championship for the first time in Lagos this year, from March 31 to April 9. The FIDE Zone ...
CUMBRIA'S best chess players have faced off at the Cumbria Chess Championship 2025. The Cumbria Chess Championship took place at Burnside Cricket Club near Kendal between Friday, April 4 and ...
CBS Sports' Josh Edwards believes the Ravens will do just that soon, projecting them to take Michigan defensive lineman Kenneth Grant ... and won a national championship in 2023, though he only ...
GUKESH DOMMARAJU (30A: Grandmaster who became the youngest-ever World Chess Champion in December 2024) GUKESH DOMMARAJU became a chess grandmaster at the age of 12. (He is currently the third ...
Dr. Bei Zeng was a chess champion in China until a supercomputer’s victory over the world’s best player put her on a path to the forefront of quantum computing as a physics professor at The ...
55-year-old became the first Indian to achieve the title of Grandmaster in 1988 Indian Grand Master Viswanathan Anand is now ready for the classical Norway chess championship. AFP file Dubai ...
The American, who lost the classical World Chess Championship final against Carlsen in 2018, still sees value in the classic format and wants to “keep our historical legacy” which has “a lot ...