Hyderabad: Telangana chess player Arjun Erigaisi dethroned five-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand to be top ranked player in the blitz, on Thursday. The 18-year-old from Warangal now has 2765 rating points to be the top player in the country. He is also ranked No.13 in the world list which is led by Magnus Carlsen with […]
Hyderabad: Telangana chess player Arjun Erigaisi added another feather in his cap. Playing in a strong field, which included top chess players from the world, the 18-year-old from Warangal finished third with 13.5 points from 18 games in the Lindores Abbey Blitz Tournament in Riga, Latvia. Speaking from Latvia, the Grandmaster said he was elated […]
Hyderabad: It should go down as one of the red-letter days for Indian chess. Seeded fourth, the Dronavalli Harika-led Indian team won their first-ever silver medal in the FIDE World women team chess championship at Sitges, Spain, on Saturday. India lost to formidable Russia 0-2 in the final. Harika described this achievement as her best […]
Hyderabad: The star-studded Indian team, led by captain Viswanathan Anand and sponsored by Microsense, will aim to defend its Online Chess Olympiad crown, which gets underway worldwide late on Monday. “We have a good mix of Experience and Youth. We hope to do well and are fairly confident of our prospects,” Anand, while addressing a […]
Former world champion Anand, who was playing his first over-the-board game in almost 17 months, started off with a win in round one of the Croatia Grand Chess Tour tournament.
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Anand, who is one of the few players to have surpassed an Elo rating of 2800, said that though his mother played a bigger role in shaping his chess career, his father was always a fervent supporter.
