India's former World Rapid Chess Champion Koneru Humpy highlighted the need to organise more chess events for women in the country to ensure a greater pool of players.
Reigning world champion D Gukesh continued to turn adversity into opportunity as he wriggled out of a virtually intractable position to beat compatriot Arjun Erigaisi for the first time ever in a classical game and jump to sole second position after round 7 of the Norway Chess.
Grandmaster Koneru Humpy's crucial victory helped last-minute entrant Indian women's team settle for a 2-2 draw with Ukraine in the first round of the ongoing World Women Team Chess Championship in Mardin, Turkey.
World champion D Gukesh climbed to a career-high No 3 ranking, while compatriot R Praggnanandhaa broke back into the top 10 in the latest FIDE classical ratings released on Saturday.
Grandmaster Koneru Humpy got back into the reckoning after defeating International Master Sergey Kayumov of Uzbekistan in the sixth round of the Dubai International Chess championship in Dubai on Saturday.
Grandmasters K Sasikiran and Koneru Humpy gave India a resounding start on the first day of the 15th Asian Games.
Grandmaster Koneru Humpy went down to Harish Sharma in the opening round of the second Parsvnath Chess championship.
The top seed needs just a victory tomorrow against Kruttika Nadig of Maharashtra to clinch the Nat. A women's chess title.\n\n
Both share the top place after the sixth round in the Asian women's chess championship.
India was held to a 3-3 draw by lower-ranked Mongolia in the sixth round as favourites China grabbed the top spot in Pool A in the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad on Saturday.
The defending champion was held by seventh seed Zhao Xue of China in the World Junior chess championships.
In the women's event, Koneru Humpy and D Harika posted wins in the fifth round after a below par showing on the second day of the competition on Monday.
Women's World Cup winner Divya Deshmukh, who has also qualified for the Women's Candidates, has opted out of the women's section to compete with the best in business.
The top seeded Indian GM settled for a short draw with Wang Yu of China in the sixth round of the 19th World junior girls' chess championship.
Grandmaster Divya Deshmukh has revealed that navigating the pressure in a long, gruelling tournament like the FIDE Women's World Cup title was "quite stressful" but she was determined to go all the way after the tough matches in the lead-up to the title clash against Koneru Humpy in Batumi, Georgia, recently.
S Vijayalakshmi is the lone Indian left in the fray.
Grandmaster Levon Aronian of Armenia won the boys' title in the World junior chess championships which concluded on Friday.
The top seeded Indian GM easily beat Ekaterina Ubiennykh of Russia in the 11th round and joined Zhao Xue of China and Nadezhda Kosintseva at the top in the World juniors girls' chess championship.
Top rated Koneru Humpy started off with an easy victory in the women's world championship opener but second highest Indian D Harika was held to a draw by compatriot Kruttika Nadig in the first game of the opening round in Hatay, Turkey on Sunday.
The Indian Grandmaster meets Cecile Van Der Merwe of South Africa in her opening match of the tournament.
WGM Zhao Xue of China emerged sole leader after the seventh round in the World junior chess championships.
World No 4 Koneru Humpy pulled off a great win using an unusual opening move with black and rounded off a very successful tournament with a share of the first place at the FIDE Women Grand Prix Chess in Kazan, Russia. She was tied at 7.5 points with the higher rated Anna Muzychuk of Slovakia.
Humpy was no match for Alexandra Kosteniuk of Russia, going down 2-9 while Harika was ousted by world No.1 Hou Yifan of China
In an event completely dominated by the Chinese, Ju Wenjun went on to snare the world title, defeating compatriot Lei Tingjie 3.5-2.5.
Former World Rapid Chess champion Koneru Humpy wants the All India Chess Federation to increase women's tournaments.
Grandmaster Koneru Humpy beat Ekaterina Kovalevskaya of Russia in the second game to push the match into tie-breaker.
Praggnanandhaa did not have to sweat hard to hold Caruana under Classical but in the Armageddon the American was a transformed player as he took advantage of his white pieces.
Vaishali stretched her lead to 2.5 points following her second win under classical time control.
Russians Volodar Murzin and Alexander Grischuk, along with Duda Jan-Kryzstof of Poland, share the lead with Arjun on seven points after the end of the second day and Round 9 of the championship, which will decide the best player of the planet after 13 games.
Grandmaster Vantika Agrawal outclassed Lela Shohradeva of Turkmenistan in the return game of the first round to progress to the round of 64 of FIDE World Women's Chess Cup.
Uzbekistan's young grandmaster Abdusattorov Nodirbek emerged sole leader in the open section of the Tata Steel Chess India Rapid tournament in Kolkata on Wednesday.
Neither current World Champion D Gukesh nor former world champion Vishy Anand are the top rated Indian chess player.
Vaishali defeated Muzychuk for the second time in the event in the Armageddon. It was a finely played Classical game wherein neither players could reach an advantage but in the Armageddon Vaishali took advantage of her better placed rooks to call the shots.
Magnus Carlsen of Norway delivered a flawless performance on the final day to clinch the title in the Open section
Arjun Erigaisi is in joint lead with 4.5 points from five rounds along with World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen and Vladimir Fedoseev after holding the Norwegian superstar in round five.
Magnus Carlsen concluded the first nine rounds with an impressive 6.5 points out of a possible 9.
Indian Grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi opened his campaign with four victories and a solitary defeat in the World Rapid Chess Championship and was tied fifth, even as defending champion Magnus Carlsen endured a frustrating day, managing to log just one victory in New York.
Anand said the presence of four Indians in the event tells about the growth of chess in the country.
The 17-year-old Gukesh is in joint lead with Russia's Ian Nepomniachtchi.
Gukesh to clash with Alireza on what promises to be a photo finish
