Cheating poses an existential challenge to chess. It's hard to know how it will be mitigated, but it must be, if chess is to continue being a legitimate sport, asserts Devangshu Datta.
'Gukesh displayed incredible fighting spirit, outstanding mental toughness, insane self-confidence, all qualities of a champion, and he just turned 18 at the end of May.'
'The championship was well fought this year.' 'Ding played better than expected. Gukesh was below his level, but good enough to beat Ding.'
Praggnanandhaa edged out his Dutch opponent in 81 moves in the fourth game after the first three ended in draws.
The 18-year-old Gukesh claimed the title by beating China's Ding Liren in Singapore on Thursday.
Having watched the 2013 World Championship match between the legendary Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen, Erigaisi is delighted to get a chance to be on the same as the two veterans.
Praggnanandhaa on Sunday attributed the change in fortune to increased confidence and ambition
Viswanathan Anand will not take part in the Doha Asian Games where chess will figure as a medal sport for the first time.
Grandmaster and former world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta won the Commonwealth Chess Championship after settling for a draw with Indian national title holder G Akash in the 11th and final round that concluded here at the Boardwalk.
Indian men bounced back with a convincing 4-0 victory over Cyprus in the second round of the Chess Olympiad
The Indian men's and women's chess teams won silver medals at the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Saturday.
The world number two will not be fielded in India's first round match against unfancied Uruguay in the Chess Olympiad.
The Indian men and women missed out on the podium by a whisker as they finished fourth in both the categories at the World Team Chess Championships, in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia.
On his part, Chauhan sought to emphasise how the AICF was the first federation to come out in support of Anand's candidature as the deputy president.
Indian Grandmaster Gukesh made history on Thursday, becoming the youngest-ever to win the world title defeating Liren in the 14th and final game of the championship in Singapore.
P Harikrishna lost the crucial third board to see India go down to Ukraine at the Chess Olympiad
Swati Ghate helped the Indian eves salvage a draw against third seed Georgia at the Women's chess Olympiad
The Indian men's hopes of a podium finish went up in smoke after they lost 0.5-3.5 to United States of America while the women's team held France 2-2 in the ninth round of the 32nd Chess Olympiad now in progress in Dresden.
P Harikrishna and S S Ganguly lost their games as India went down to defending champions Russia in the Chess Olympiad.
Indian eves cruised to an emphatic 2-1 victory over eighth seeds France in the eighth round of the 36th Chess Olympiad.
They beat Kazakhstan 2-1 and moved to joint 13th in the women's Chess Olympiad.
Viswanathan Anand's absence was felt as India could manage only a 2-2 draw against Uzbekistan in the ninth round of the Chess Olympiad.
Viswanathan Anand and National champion Surya Shekhar Ganguly were held in a 2-2 draw in the fifth round of the Chess Olympiad.
Playing with black pieces, Indian Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran had to settle for a draw against his higly-rated English compatriot Michael Adams in the opening match of the M-Tel Masters 2007 in Sofia.
But their medal hopes remain dim after the 13th and penultimate round of the 36th Chess Olympiad.
Indian eves came up with yet another emphatic performance in the 10th round of the women's section of the 36th Chess Olympiad.
The Indian men succumbed to their first defeat going down 1.5-2.5 to slip to joint sixth spot after the seventh round of the 36th Chess Olympiad.
The Indian eves survived some anxious moments before salvaging draws in all the three games against Poland in the fifth round of the 36th Chess Olympiad.
Surya Shekhar Ganguly beat Gabriel Sargissen to help the Indian men register a 2.5-1.5 victory over Armenia in the fifth round of the 36th Chess Olympiad.
Grandmasters Pendyala Harikrishna and Abhijit Kunte guided India to a 2.5-1.5 victory over the United States in the fourth round of the Chess Olympiad.
Indian men registered a massive 3.5-0.5 win over Costa Rica, while the Indian women beat Cuba 2.5-0.5 in the second round of the 36th Chess Olympiad.
Indian man scored a victory over unfancied Uruguay in their first round at the Chess Olympiad.
The fall shattered his chances of claiming the world number one ranking from Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria.
However, the women's team stayed in contention after a 2-1 victory over Romania at the Chess Olympiad.
India posted an emphatic 4-0 victory over Mongolia in the third round of the 37th Chess Olympiad.
India wasted a winning start as they drew with Vietnam in the second round of the Women's Chess Olympiad
Sakshi, Bajrang accuse WFI of using devious means to get suspension lifted, threaten fresh protest
The draw against the Israeli Grandmaster took the Indian men's team's tally to 28 points at the Chess Olympiad.
India had a disappointing finish at the 37th Chess Olympiad in Italy.
The Indian men suffered another humiliating defeat to a lowly ranked Canada by a 1.5-2.5 margin.
