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Hyderabad: Top seed Grand Master RR Laxman of ICF entered the second round with a full point from the first round of the Ekagra All India Open Fide Rating Chess Tournament held at the Kotla Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy Indoor Stadium, Yousufguda, Hyderabad on Wednesday. He defeated N Ramesh of Tamil Nadu in the opening round. […]

Hyderabad: Chidvilas Sai Surapaneni of Narayana High school, RK Puram bagged top honours in the open category with 10 points from 12 rounds of the Brilliant Trophy Online Chess Tournament on Tuesday. Meanwhile, KSR Anjani Kumar emerged champion in the juniors category with 10.5 points from 12 rounds. Anjani Kumar defeated Katta Sriansh in the […]

Hyderabad: Ritesh Maddukuri of Jubilee Hills Public School bagged top honours with six points from six rounds in the juniors category of the 194th Brilliant Trophy Chess Tournament held at the Brilliant Grammar High School, Dilsukhnagar, Hyderabad on Sunday. M Deekshitha and Suhaas Kuppili settled for second and third places. Meanwhile, Challa Saharsha emerged champion […]

Hyderabad: Hyderabad’s Adireddy Arjun bagged top honours with 5.5 points from six rounds in the Telangana State Junior Under-19 Boys Chess Championship held in Hyderabad on Thursday. Arjun defeated Challa Saharsha in the final round of the tournament. Meanwhile, Md Bhashiq Imrose defeated Sri Charan Sandipagu to claim the second place with 5.5 points in […]

Hyderabad: Velpula Sarayu stunned third seeded D Nigamasree to emerge champion in the final round of the Telangana State Junior Under-19 Girls Chess Championship held at the Hyderabad Boat Club, Hyderabad on Tuesday. Meanwhile, G Sahithya defeated fourth seed Sai Mahathi Alapati to claim the second place. Sai Mahathi Alapati and Sai Janani Pothula settled […]

Hyderabad: Praveen Prasad bagged top honours in the open category with five points from as many rounds at the Pragathi Chess Foundation Open Prize Money Chess Tournament held at the Sundaraiah Bhavan, Pragathi Nagar, Hyderabad on Tuesday. Mohammad Mudassir settled for silver. Meanwhile in the U-15 category, Nidhish Shyamal emerged champion in boys with 4.5 […]

Hyderabad: Prathul Marreddy and Aadya Rupesh of Hyderabad bagged the top honours with five points from five rounds in boys and girls categories respectively at the Telangana State U-7 Boys and Girls Chess National Selection Tournament held in Hyderabad on Tuesday. Vutkuri Nihal and top seed Nidhish Shyamal settled for second and third places in […]

Oslo: India’s Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa won the title in the Norway Chess Open, the Group A event being held on the sidelines of the top tier classical event that involved Magnus Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand, finishing with 7.5 points from nine games. The 16-year-old Indian Grandmaster, who is on a high after finishing runners-up in the Chessable […]

Hyderabad: Himesh Empally bagged top honours with five points form five rounds in the U-15 boys category while Aasritha Gandham clinched gold with four points from five rounds of the 35th Telangana State Ranking U-7, U-9, U-11, U-13, U-15 Open Chess Tournament for boys and girls held at the L B Stadium, Hyderabad on Sunday. […]

Chennai: A total of 213 teams from over 100 countries including Ukraine, have registered to compete in the 44th Chess Olympiad to be held at Mahabalipuram, said an official of All India Chess Federation (AICF). “Till now 115 teams in the open category and 98 teams in the women’s category from over 100 countries have registered […]

Hyderabad: Dhruva Thota scored 5.5 points from six rounds to emerge champion in the under-14 boys category at the Telangana State Under-14 and Under-10 boys and girls Chess selection tournament at the Yoga Hall, LB Stadium on Friday. Challa Saharsha, with five points, emerged first runner-up. In the Under-10 boys category, Pavan Karthikeya, who took […]

Hyderabad: A Surya from Chennai and Gopalkrishna from Meerut bagged the titles in junior and open category categories respectively in the 189th Brilliant Trophy Chess Tournament conducted online on Monday. In the junior’s category, Surya won the top honours with 10.5 points while P Harshith and J Niranjan settled at second and third places by […]

New Delhi: With eight months left for the Asian Games 2022 to start at Hangzhou, China on September 10, the All India Chess Federation (AICF) is hopeful of a rich medal haul from their men’s and women’s team when the chess discipline returns to the Asian Games fold after 12 years. “Eyeing the four gold […]

Hyderabad: V Varun maintained a clean slate with six points from as many rounds to clinch the title in the Sadvini Memorial Open Chess tournament, at the Little Flower Junior College, Uppal on Sunday. Basiq Imrose and Amitpal Singh took second and third places with five points each.Top 10: 1.V Varun, 2.Md Basiq Imrose, 3.Amithpal […]

Hyderabad: Telangana’s promising chess player Samhita Pungavanam ended in a blaze of glory in the National Under-8 Open & Girls Online Chess Championship when she won a silver medal. By this impressive performance and the second finish helped the seven-year-old Samhita earn a berth in the the Asian Youth Under-8 Chess Championship, slated to be […]

Hyderabad: Suresh Duvvala scored 9.5 points from 12 rounds to emerge champion in the open category of the 184th Brilliant Trophy chess tournament, on Monday. In the junior category, Gopalakrishna took the top honours with 11 points from 12 rounds. He was tied for the top spot with Yatharth Patel but Gopalakrishna from Meerut won […]

Hyderabad: The inaugural Telangana State Online Ranking Chess tournament will be held on September 5 for Under-7,9,11,13,15 boys and girls on the online playing platform www.tornelo.com with 9 am start with trial round and then under Swiss format . A total of five rounds will be conducted. Time control will 15+10 seconds increment from move […]

Warangal lad, who travelled over 11,000 kms in the last 55 days and competed in 6 tournaments, achieves 2,600 rating points

Although she lost in the sixth round against Phillipines Gaye Thale Ventura, Samhitha bounced strongly in seventh round.

The 34-year old Humpy, currently ranked number three in the world, has qualified for the FIDE Women's Candidates event next year.