This Chennai school makes chess champs out of everyone

Chennai's chess nursery: The learning ground for Gukesh, Praggnanandhaa Photograph: Kind Courtesy Michal Walusza for FIDE/X Even a casual stroll around the city will help visitors collect crumbs......

SEE: Shami, Sheetal receive Arjuna awards

Photograph: Kind Courtesy President of India/X India's best-performing athletes were on Tuesday conferred with the national sports awards by President Droupadi Murmu in a regal ceremony where......

'It's a special kind of support'

IMAGE: R Praggnanandhaa's mother Nagalakshmi has been a constant presence at the ongoing FIDE World Cup. Photograph: Praggnanandhaa/Twitter Former World Chess Champion and Russian chess......

Pranesh is India's 79th chess Grandmaster!

IMAGE: M Pranesh, 16, crossed the 2500-rating threshold and became a GM, having completed his three norms before the Rilton Cup. Photograph: AICF/Twitter M Pranesh clinched the title in the Rilton......

Chess Olympiad: Unstoppable Gukesh hits 8/8 as India shock USA

IMAGE: D Gukesh is enjoying a purple patch and his victory over World No 5 Fabiano Caruana was his eighth on the trot at the Chess Olympiad. Photograph: AICF Teenaged Grandmaster D Gukesh shocked......