Lockdown: 14-year-old Indian IM stuck in Hungary

IMAGE: The International Master, with an Elo rating of 2452, had travelled to Budapest to compete in a tournament which was to end on March 17 and he has been there for nearly a month because of......

Sports Shorts: Sindhu, Saina make winning start at Indonesia Masters

IMAGE: Saina will next face another Indonesian Fitriani Fitriani. Photograph: Kind courtesy, Saina Nehwal/Twitter The Indian trio of P V Sindhu, Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth dished out superb......

Sasikiran draws with Macieja

Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran played out an easy draw with Polish GM Bartlomiej Macieja in the first game of the third round of the Chess World Cup in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia on Friday. After a......

Anand leads India to easy win

World No. 2 Viswanathan Anand led from the front as the second seed Indian men's team stamped an emphatic 4-0 victory over Mongolia in the third round of the 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin.Despite......

Aronian wins World Chess Cup

Former World junior champion Levon Aronian of Armenia comprehensively defeated former World champion Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine 2-0 in the tie-break games of the final to annex the World Chess......