The two-day World Blitz Championship in both the Open and Women's categories commences in Doha, on Monday, December 29.
Gukesh, Erigaisi snapped up by PBG Alaskan Knights in GCL draft
FIDE, which has listed the venue for all its global events, has not yet announced the venue for the World Cup.
Magnus Carlsen was held to a draw by more than 143,000 people worldwide playing against him in a single, record-setting online game, on Monday.
One 'fan' who has been bitten by the Jawan bug is Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand.
Chess grandmaster Viswanathan Anand, sprint queen P T Usha and football legend Bhaichung Bhutia are among the prominent sports personalities invited for Monday's ceremony.
A lot has been written about Gukesh but have you wondered about how it is to be the parents of a genius and budding World Champion.
The upcoming inaugural edition of the Global Chess League (GCL) will feature the sport's icons such as Viswanathan Anand, Magnus Carlsen, Hou Yifan and Ding Liren.
While about 8,000 people are in the long list of invitees, the select list features 506 A-listers, including prominent politicians, leading industrialists, top film stars, sportspersons, diplomats, judges and high priests.
Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand posted his second win on the trot, defeating Bulgarian Veselin Topalov in the Classical section to take the lead at the Norway Chess tournament.
Triveni Continental Kings beat Ganges Grandmasters, led by five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand, to set up a final against upGrad Mumba Masters.
Top-seed Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia) led the field at the end of the Rapid with 11 points. He is followed by Giri, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France), Duda and Saric on 10 points.
Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand said by winning his fourth World Chess Championship title early this month he has proved critics who accused him of lacking in killer instinct wrong.
The nation on Wednesday paid rich tributes to Grandmaster Viswanathan Anands for retaining the World Championship title.
The All India Chess Federation decided to recommend Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand for the coveted 'Bharat Ratna' award.
Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand's father Viswanathan Iyer on Wednesday termed his son's achievement of winning his fifth World Championship title as the "proudest moment of our lives".
Having bounced back with an emphatic victory in the previous round, Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand holds a huge psychological advantage in the crucial remaining four games of the World Championship match against Israeli Boris Gelfand in Moscow.
Hyderabad is all set to witness a spectacular chess match with Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand playing against 40 players simultaneously on August 24.
Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand showed immense resilience to beat challenger Boris Gelfand of Israel in a tense rapid chess tie-breaker to win the World Championship crown for the fifth time and fourth in a row.
Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand, on Saturday, drew the 11th game against challenger Boris Gelfand of Israel as the World Chess Championship heads into a dramatic finish in Moscow on Saturday.
Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand suffered a jolt in his title defence as he lost to his Israeli challenger Boris Gelfand in the seventh game of the World Chess Championship in Moscow.
Anand got off to a good start and won the first game of the best-of-four contest. The next two games were drawn before Leko levelled by winning the fourth.
Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand found himself in trouble before eking out a hard-fought draw against Boris Gelfand of Israel in a hotly-contested third round game of the World Chess Championship in Moscow on Monday.
In a kind gesture, Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand is giving financial support to the Indian team in their preparation for the World Blind Chess Championship to be held in Belgrade, Serbia from August 26 to September 4.
Five-time champion and World No 3 Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand will spearhead a five-man strong Indian challenge at the prestigious Corus Chess Tournament starting in Wijk Aan Zee, The Netherlands, on Monday.
Having defended his World Championships title two months back, Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand has set his eyes on regaining FIDE number one spot by the year end.
World champion Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand scored an impressive victory over Jan Smeets of Holland to jump to sole lead after the end of the fifth round of the 'A' group in the 73rd Tata Steel Chess tournament in Wijk Aan Zee. With his third victory from five games, Anand took his tally to four points and is now half a point ahead of nearest rival Hikaru Nakamura of United States who played out a draw with Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine.
World Chess Champion Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand on Tuesday termed the controversy over his nationality as disappointing but said he does not want to stretch the issue too far and would prefer to move on.
The All India Chess Federation on Thursday felicitated Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand for retaining the world chess championship title.
Stressing the importance of chess in helping one improve concentration, Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand advised children to focus and enjoy the game without worrying about the outcome.
Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand paid for costly blunders at crucial junctures and lost a closely-fought final against Vassily Ivanchuk in Spain on Sunday. The defeat saw him relinquish the Magistral Ciudad De Leon chess crown. Ukrainian Grandmaster Ivanchuk, fresh from his triumph in the MTel Masters, won 2.5 - 1.5 to deny the Indian his eighth Leon title.
The FIDE list shows Veselin Topalov still on the top without including the points earned at the Morelia-Linares tournament.
'Whenever I go for a tournament, only one thing is there in my mind: to win,' says Under-12 World chess champion N Srinath.
The chess ace will play a simultaneous exhibition against 40 people in Chennai to raise funds for Vidyasagar -- a NGO for children with cerebral palsy.
Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw against Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the ninth and penultimate round of the Bilbao Grand Slam chess tournament to stay joint fifth. With his seventh draw in nine games Anand, playing with white, took his points tally to seven points in the soccer-like scoring system with just one round to come in the super-category tournament.
The chess ace will help Vidyasagar, a NGO dedicated to integrating children with cerebral palsy into society.
The Indian ace will look to consolidate his position at the top of the chess ratings list by adding another title to his already impressive collection.
Former Russian champion Peter Svidler held the Indian ace in the ninth and penultimate round of the Mtel Masters chess tournament.
Topalov, with his unsurpassable score of 9.5 points from 13 games has emerged the New World Chess Champion, 2005.
The Indian Grandmaster won the 18-player tournament by a two-point margin over nearest rival Levon Aronian of Armenia.
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