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At just five, Delhi’s Aarini Lahoty is India’s highest-rated chess player in her age group, boasting a FIDE rating of 1551.
It was 2 am, my parents were asleep. I woke my dad up and said: 'I won'.' 'He said, 'Good' and then went back to sleep ...
Carlsen has a peak rating of 2882, the highest in history. Recently, R Praggnanandhaa gave some insight into what makes Carlsen great. The Indian GM also made comparisons between him and Carlsen.
Divya Deshmukh, who recently defeated Koneru Humpy to win the FIDE Women's World Cup title, issued a challenge to Magnus Carlsen.
The new Women’s Chess World Cup winner, Divya Deshmukh, wants to play a match against world No.1 Magnus Carlsen as he hopes ...
Five-year-old Delhi chess prodigy Aarini Lahoty has become India’s youngest female FIDE-rated player, inspiring a new ...
Nihal Sarin is popularly known as the 'Speed Demon' for his affinity to the faster formats of chess. It's evident from how ...
The Chennai Grand Masters 2025 is Liang's first big tournament in more than a year, and his constant smiles and jokes are a ...
At the 2025 British Chess Championships, 10-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan, a British girl of Indian descent, made history by becoming the youngest female chess player ever to defeat a Grandmaster. She ...
Indian chess Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa reveals how the success of D Gukesh and Arjun Erigaisi made him feel ‘insecure’ in ...
The Las Vegas leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam tour and the Esports World Cup in Riyadh saw attempts to make the sport ...
The chess world is waking up to a new phenomenon called Sandbagging, in which an opponent deliberately loses to lower-ranked opponents, and this ends up destroying the reputation of the game.