World Chess C'ships: Indians joint second after SA whitewash

India scored an emphatic 4-0 victory over South Africa and jumped to joint second spot after the third round of the World Women's Team Chess Championship in Mardin, Turkey. Mainstay Koneru Humpy......

Humpy top seed for women's World Championship

Top seeded Grandmaster Koneru Humpy will start her campaign against Cecile Van Der Merwe of South Africa in the first round of the women's World Chess Championship that gets underway in Elista......

Ganguly, Hari have mixed luck

Grandmaster Surya Shekhar Ganguly fumbled under pressure and lost to Vitaly Bachin of Russia in the 12th and penultimate round of the World Junior chess championship now drawing to a close in......

Harikrishna, Ganguly lose

Grandmasters Surya Shekhar Ganguly and Pendyala Harikrishna failed to hold their nerve in tense moments and lost their respective tenthround games to slip further in the World Juniors chess......