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Indian chess diva Tania Sachdev holds forth on women in the sport.
A municipal school in Tamil Nadu is encouraging its students to excel in karate and chess.
The India ace avenged his World championship defeat, winning his seventh round match in the Corus tournament in 34 moves.
They won the boys and girls' titles respectively in the National under-18 chess championship.
Second seeded Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta went down fighting to Sipke Ernst of Holland while Dejan Bojkov of Bulgaria annexed the crown in the Groningen International open chess tournament which concluded in Groningen (The Netherlands), on Friday.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Thursday.
The Armenians protested for a long time delaying the start of the second round of matches before withdrawing following rejection of their appeal.
The Indian ace won his opening match against Ruslan Ponomariov at Linares in 64 moves.
Bologan held Braingames champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia to a draw for his maiden title in a Super Category event.
In a rare display of annoyance, World chess champion Viswanathan Anand hit out at chess great Gary Kasparov and other critics for suggesting that he lacked motivation.
Reader Kedar Lele spotted chess champion Viswanathan Anand in Sofia.
The Chess Players' Association of India is upset because 10 per cent is being deducted from the players' prize-money.
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India's biggest sporting legends Sachin Tendulkar, Abhinav Bindra and Vishwanathan Anand hailed PV Sindhu for her valiant performance in the Olympic final against world number one Carolina Marin. Abhinav Bindra in his message for Sindhu said that he wasn't as heartbroken after missing out on a medal himself as he is today (Saturday). India's only individual Olympic gold medallist tweeted: "I think I'm more heartbroken today (after Sindhu's loss in final) than I was a week ago! Well played @Pvsindhu1 you are an inspiration to me!"
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Having suffered back-to-back defeats in the World Chess Championship, defending champion Viswanathan Anand was left a bit nervy if the press conference after the sixth game is anything to go by.
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