India’s 18-year-old chess prodigy, Gukesh Dommaraju, has become the youngest world champion ever after defeating defending champion Ding Liren in a gripping final in Singapore. Gukesh, who was already the tournament’s youngest competitor, won the best-of-14 match by a single game to claim...
Viswanathan Anand, the 15th undisputed chess champion and surely the greatest Indian chess player of all time, was born on December 11, 1969, in Mayiladuthurai in Tamil Nadu, the southeasternmost state in India. Anand, noted for playing quickly early in his career, competed for the classical ...
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NEW DELHI, June 13 (Xinhua) -- India's woman chess star Soumya Swaminathan has pulled out of a chess tournament to be held in Iran next month, opposing the Islamic country's mandatory rule of wearing headscarf for women athletes.
A.is much bigger in size than other pieces B.has the same power as the king C.is not allowed to move in the square D.is the most powerful one of all (4) The writer of the passage seems to tell us that ___. [ ] A.it's not easy to become a champion in a world chess matc...
Chess champion denied degree.This article reports on the apology issued by the University of Hyderabad in India to chess grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand after its plan to give him an honorary doctorate has been blocked by the government.EBSCO_AspTimes Higher Education...
The gathering with Anand will likely be in Chennai and will include games and instruction with India's most famous chess player. Anand was India's first-ever GM, first world junior champion and first world champion...but it remains to be seen who will become first-ever ChessKid Speed Chess...
Located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal, it is a major commercial, cultural, economic and educational center in South India. Chennai is the 4th most populous metropolis in India with population of nearly 8.5 million. Viswanathan Anand, the world chess champion, grew up in ...
At the women's event, Nandhidhaa from India ranked the first, followed by a Bulgarian chess player and a Vietnamese woman. At the tournament's closing ceremony, the World Chess Federation (FIDE)'s newly-elected President Arkady Dvorkovich awarded the champion cup to Wang Hao who bagged home...
Youngest world chess champion returns to India 18-year-old Gukesh Dommaraju returned to his native India amid a frenzy of fans and media after becoming the youngest world chess champion. He defeated defending champion, Ding Liren, from China 7.5-6.5 in their best-of-14 final in Singapore....