The awards will be presented to the awardees by the President of India at a specially organized function at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 17th January, 2025. The President will present the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna
First Chinese Male World Chess Champion Crowned: On Monday, May 1, 2023, Ding Liren won the men's global chess championship after defeating Russia's Ian Nepomniachtchi. After 14 first-round games, the 30-year-old won a rapid-play tiebreaker at the World Chess Championship in Kazakhstan. ...
14. Divith Reddy becomes the world champion in the U-8 Cadets Championship. Divith Reddy of Hyderabad became champion of the Under-8 World Cadets Chess Championship. He secured 9/11 points equal to compatriot Sattwik Swain. Divith Reddy clinched the gold based on his tiebreak score.He has ...
In Chess, Indian Grandmaster R. Praggnanandhaa clinched the prestigious Tata Steel Masters 2025 title in a thrilling showdown, defeating reigning World Champion D. Gukesh in a nail-biting tiebreaker at Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands.This victory makes R. Praggnanandhaa the first Indian since ...
Chess: Praggnanandhaa beats World Champion Magnus Carlsen.For the third time in just six months, 17-year-old Indian Grandmaster Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu defeated world champion, Magnus Carlsen, with his latest victory at the FTX Crypto Cup, the American finale of Champions Chess Tour, in ...
These games are a testament toHou Yifan’scapabilities. Even when theformer and current World championface her, she can hold them off. Conclusion We as chess fans have high expectations forHou Yifan. Even at the age of27we still expect her to come back to the game. Possibly to compete at...
Iranian refugee Alireza Firouzja defeated world champion Magnus Carlsen in the final of the $78,000 Banter Blitz Cup. Alireza Firouzja left his native Iran, due to its policy of forbidding games against Israeli opponents, and now plays under the Fide global chess body flag....
Indias Viswanathan Anand won the World Rapid Chess Championship in Riyadh. he remained unbeaten all through. He defeated Magnus Carlsen in the ninth round and went to win over Russias Vladimir Fedoseev in the final in a tie breaker. Anand had last won this title in 2003. India's P. Hari...
Extensive sport-specific deliberate practice (DP) is thus a pre-requisite to world-class performance in sports with a large participant base. A widely held view, based on seminal work in chess [261] and music [262], is that 10 years and 10,000 h of DP are necessary and sufficient to...
Kush was honoured for his three-gold medal wins at the first ever Western Youth Chess Championship 2016 at UAE. He has also won the U-7 Maharashtra State Championship 2016 title and the World Schools Under 7 Blitz champion in Sochi (Russia)....