An eight-year-old Indian-origin boy defeated Polish chess grandmaster Jacek Stopa at the Burgdorfer Stadthaus Open in Switzerland.
D Gukesh admires the way charismatic former India skipper MS Dhoni and iconic tennis player Novak Djokovic
The Indian ace drew his second round match against Peter Leko at the Dortmund Super Grandmasters Chess tournament.
World Championship challenger D Gukesh on Sunday said he didn't think about his personal achievements and was prepared to do "whatever it takes" to secure India's maiden gold medal at the Chess Olympiad following near-misses in previous editions.
The sixth game of the World Chess Championship between India's D Gukesh and China's Ding Liren ended in a draw.
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.
'It was a big relief to get it out of the way. Now he can concentrate on future progress.'
Joining the elite 2,800 rated chess players club will get Arjun invites for top chess tournaments as well as better appearance fees.
Viswanathan Anand will start his campaign against the world's youngest-ever Grandmaster, in the Corus Super Grandmasters chess tournament.
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu of Romania and World champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan lead the field in the category-16 Super Grandmasters Pune chess festival.
The Indian ace beat Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine in just 37 moves at the Corus Super Grandmasters chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand took sole lead after ten rounds of the Morelia Linares Super Grandmasters chess tournament.
The Indian chess ace beat young Magnus Carlsen in the third round of the Linares-Morelia Super Grandmasters tournament.
GM Veselin Topalov defeated Michael Adams of England in the first round of the Linares Super Grandmasters tournament.
The two meet in the Linares Super Grandmasters Chess tournament that gets underway later on Wednesday.
The Indian ace gained 11 points to breach the landmark but missed the top rank by just one point.
The Indian ace drew with Francisco Vallejo Pons of Spain in the ninth round at Linares.
The two chess giants agreed to split the point after only 16 moves at Linares.
The world's 14 top-ranked players are taking part in the tournament.
Caruana became the sole leader and also got back to number two in live world rankings.
Seventh-round loss gave me energy, motivation to aim for title: Gukesh
World champion Viswanathan Anand suffered a shocked defeat against Norwegian prodigy Magnus Carlsen in the sixth round to slump to joint fourth of Magistral Ciudad de Linares chess tournament in Linares on Thursday. With his second loss in the first six rounds, Anand has now three points out of a possible six and will have to do a lot of catching up in the remaining eight rounds of the Super Grandmasters tournament.
Former world champion Garry Kasparov has announced his retirement from competition chess, according to Spanish media reports.
The Indian ace beat the tournament leader and top seed to move within striking distance of the title in the Category-16 Super Grandmaster tournament.
The Indian ace played his third successive draw to be tied third after the third round of the Sparkassen Super Grandmasters chess.
'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 Indian ace is placed second behind Peter Leko in the Linares tournament.
Vladimir Kramnik with a tally of five points won the Dortmund title for the eighth time in his career.
The Indian ace outplayed Germany's Arkadij Naiditch for his first win at the Sparkassen Super Grandmasters Chess tournament.
The Indian closed the first half of the Morelia Linares chess on a winning note with a thumping win over Peter Leko in the seventh round.
The Indian ace was held for the second successive day in the Morelia/Linares Super Grandmasters' chess tournament.
Garry Kasparov and Viswanathan Anand both lost their last round games.
Rustam Kasimdzhanov held Viswanathan Anand to a draw in the fourth round of the 22nd Linares Super Grandmasters Chess tournament.
The Indian ace failed to convert an advantageous position and settled for a draw against the World champion at Linares.
The victory gave the Indian ace the joint lead with Vladimir Kramnik in the Super Grandmasters Chess tournament.
Anand drew with Spaniard Francisco Pons while Kasparov lost to Teimous Radjabov of Azerbaijan in the Linares chess tournament.
The Indian chess ace won the Morelia-Linares title and will thus attain top ranking in April.
Viswanathan Anand and Koneru Humpy catapulted Indian chess to new heights while Parimarjan Negi also made his presence felt in the year gone by.
Russia's Garry Kasparov took a decisive step for his ninth title at Linares after crushing Britain's Michael Adams.
Garry Kasparov extended his lead over nearest rivals Anand and Topalov to two point at Linares.
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