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Your chance to meet Vishy Anand and the young super talents of Indian chess in Bangalore!

06/09/2022 -

The Westbridge Anand Chess Academy (WACA) began in January 2021 with 5 mentees - Gukesh, Praggnanandhaa, Nihal, Vaishali and Raunak. It was a phenomenal opportunity for the youngsters as they would get a chance to train with the legend Vishy Anand and his team (Gajewski, Yusupov, Chanda and Gelfand). Two more players were added later on - Arjun Erigaisi and Leon Mendonca. All of these youngsters have performed phenomenally well in the last 18 months. That's the reason why WACA has organized an event in Bangalore on the 7th of September 2022 at 7 p.m to celebrate the achievements of these youngsters. This is your chance to attend it and meet your heroes!

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Shubhi Gupta impressive at 2nd Aparna Dutta Memorial Rating Open 2022

06/09/2022 -

Top two seeds of the tournament - GM Neuris Delgado Ramirez (PAR) and GM Cristhian Camilo Rios (COL) scored 9.5/10 each. Neuris won 2nd Aparna Dutta Memorial Rating Open on tie-breaks, Cristhian was placed second. Reigning National Under-12 Girls and National Amateur U-2000 Women champion, 11th seeded Shubhi Gupta secured third position. She scored an impressive 8/10. Abhrojyoty Nath also scored the same, he was placed fourth. Six out of top ten finishers were below 14 years of age. Total prize fund of the tournament was ₹275000. Top three prizes were ₹35000, ₹25000 and ₹10000 along with a trophy each. Photo: Saishyam Srikanth

Sinquefield Cup 2022 R4: Caruana scores, Carlsen withdraws

06/09/2022 -

The fourth round of Sinquefield Cup 2022 had something unprecedented. The world champion announced his withdrawal from the tournament via a tweet. It surprised everyone as Carlsen did not reveal the reason. He also added a cryptic clip of Jose Mourinho who is known to be a successful football coach. He is seen to be said, "I prefer really not to speak. If I speak, I am in trouble." There are a lot of rumors and theories circling around the web. Whatever reason is behind the world no.1's withdrawal, it is his prerogative to speak about it, if and when he wants to. Fabiano Caruana scored the sole victory of the round against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. Round 5 starts today at 1 p.m. local time, 11:30 p.m. IST. Photo: Lennart Ootes/Grand Chess Tour

Aravindh Chithambaram clinches 22nd Dubai Open 2022, Praggnanandhaa third

05/09/2022 -

Aravindh Chithambaram drew with Praggnanandhaa in the final round to become the clear champion of 22nd Dubai Open 2022. He scored an unbeaten 7.5/9 and finished a half point ahead of the field. This is sixth overall, fifth individual triumph of the year out of the eight tournaments he played. The last tournament he played was over 1.5 months ago which he won at 41st Benasque Open 2022. He performed at 2705 and gained 11.4 Elo rating points. Five players scored 7/9. They are - GM Alexandr Predke, GM Praggnanandhaa, GM Abhijeet Gupta, IM Sammed Jaykumar Shete and GM Sethuraman S P. They secured second to sixth place according to tie-breaks. Sammed is the only IM among top seven finishers. Total prize fund was US$ 50000. Top three prizes were $13000 and a trophy, $8000 and $5000 each respectively. Photo: Rupali Mullick

Sinquefield Cup 2022 R3: Hans Niemann shocks Magnus Carlsen, crosses 2700 and emerges sole leader

05/09/2022 -

Hans Niemann scored the biggest victory of his career in the third round of Sinquefield Cup 2022. He defeated the world champion, Magnus Carlsen by outplaying him in the endgame with the black pieces, grabbed sole lead and crossed 2700 in the live ratings too. The top junior of USA drew polarizing reactions when he said, "Chess speaks for itself" after he beat the World no.1 at FTX Crypto Cup 2022. Yesterday, his chess truly spoke when he beat the world no.1 in a Classical game and showed that his first win was not a fluke, he can certainly hang with the world's best. Round 4 starts today at 1 p.m. local time, 11:30 p.m. IST. Photo: Lennart Ootes/Grand Chess Tour

Raunak Sadhwani second at Julius Baer Challenge 2022, advances to the Tour Finals

05/09/2022 -

GM Andrey Esipenko scored 20/24 on the second day to finish with 41/45 and win Challengers Chess Tour 2022 Julius Baer Challenge. He scored 13 wins and only two draws, remained undefeated. GM Raunak Sadhwani scored 31/45 to finish second. Both of them have qualified to the Tour Finals which will take place on 29th and 30th October 2022. Five players scored 27/45. IM Aditya Mittal, GM Leon Luke Mendonca and IM Prraneeth Vuppala secured fourth, fifth and seventh place according to the tie-breaks. The next event Magnus Academy Challenge will take place on 8th and 9th October 2022. Photo: Ashwin Subramanian

22nd Dubai Open 2022 R8: Aravindh Chithambaram ends Arjun Erigaisi's unbeaten run on his birthday

04/09/2022 -

In a battle of the reigning National champions, Aravindh Chithambaram defeated Arjun Erigaisi to emerge sole leader 7/8 at 22nd Dubai Open 2022. He will face Praggnanandhaa in Round 9. Aravindh must win the last round to become a clear champion, while a draw would leave his fate in Predke's hands. If Praggnanandhaa wins, he would have to hope for Predke to draw or lose, as his tie-break score is inferior to the top seed. Seven Indians out of eleven players are at 6/8. IM Arghyadip Das and IM Sammed Jaykumar Shete scored impressive victories over Kazakhstan no.1 GM Rinat Jumabayev and GM Sahaj Grover respectively. Round 9 starts today at 10 a.m. local time, 11:30 a.m. IST. Photo: Rupali Mullick

Julius Baer Challenge 2022 R1-7: Prraneeth and Leon make an unbeaten start

04/09/2022 -

GM Andrey Esipenko made a perfect start 21/21 at Challengers Chess Tour 2022 Julius Baer Challenge. He won all seven games on the first day. IM Prraneeth Vuppala and GM Leon Luke Mendonca made an impressive start 15/21. Both of them scored four wins and three draws each. They are undefeated so far. GM Raunak Sadhwani scored 12/21. WGM Vantika Agrawal 10/21, IM Aditya Mittal 8/21 and WIM Savitha Shri B 6/21 have a lot to catch up in the last eight rounds. Since it's a blitz tournament, a lot can change. Only top two of this leg will advance to the Finals. Round 8 starts today from 6:30 p.m. IST. Photo: Rupali Mullick

The man who took down Kasparov- Vladimir Kramnik

03/09/2022 -

In our 4th episode of Olympiad stories with Saravanan, we focus on the 14th World Champion Vladimir Kramnik. Kramnik arrived on the world scene in 1992 at the Manila Olympiad with a score of 8.5/9. He beat many strong players like Van Wely, Nunn, and Seirawan among others. His performance rating was over 2900! This was the stage where he broke through and eventually went to defeat Garry Kasparov in the World Championship. In this episode, you get to know not only about the 1992 Olympiad and Kramnik's games but also about the kind of person that Vladimir is.

Six Indian juniors will feature in Julius Baer Challenge starting today

03/09/2022 -

The Challengers Chess Tour 2022 season starts today with Julius Baer Challenge. 16-players including six Indians - GM Raunak Sadhwani, GM Leon Luke Mendonca, IM Aditya Mittal, IM Prraneeth Vuppala, WGM Savitha Shri B and WGM Vantika Agrawal will take part in the first tournament. The Total prize fund for each tournament is US$10,000. The format of the tournament has been changed from Rapid to Blitz. The total prize fund for the entire season will be $30000 + wildcard for Champions Chess Tour 2023 and a $10000 match against the previous season winner, GM Praggnanandhaa in Tel Aviv, Israel. The tournament will start at 11:30 p.m. IST tonight. Photo: Challengers Chess Tour

22nd Dubai Open 2022 R7: Praggnanandhaa and Aravindh catch up with Arjun Erigaisi and Predke

03/09/2022 -

Arjun Erigaisi drew with Alexandr Predke in the seventh round of 22nd Dubai Open 2022. Praggnanandhaa defeated Vladimir Akopian (USA) and Aravindh Chithambaram checkmated Kazakhstan no.1 Rinat Jumabayev in 25 moves. All four of them are now at 6/7 each. Praggnanandhaa will face Predke and Arjun will be up against Aravindh in the penultimate round. Four players are in the chase at 5.5/7. Abhijeet Gupta and Sethuraman are the two Indians among them. Reigning National Women's champion, WGM Divya Deshmukh defeated IM Arash Tahbaz (IRI) to move to 4.5/7. Round 8 starts today at 5 p.m. local time, 6:30 p.m. IST. Photo: Rupali Mullick

South Point reclaims 14th Chessmate Inter School Team Rapid Rating 2022 after five years

02/09/2022 -

South Point High School A defeated their B team to clinch the 14th Chessmate - Inter School Rapid Rating Team 2022. Since the defending champion, Garden High School did not participate, a new champion was guaranteed to be crowned. South Point A finished first 13/14, followed by Aditya Academy Senior Secondary at second place 12/14. Both teams remained undefeated. Delhi Public School Ruby Park secured second place 10/14 due to better tie-breaks. Among the Girls teams, Lakshmipat Singhania Academy won the first place in the Girls category for the fourth consecutive year. Shri Shikshayatan School finished second and Gokhale Memorial Girls School third. South Point alumni, India's 72nd GM Mitrabha Guha was the Chief Guest at the prize distribution ceremony. Photo: Shahid Ahmed

22nd Dubai Open 2022 R6: Arjun Erigaisi joins the lead with Predke

02/09/2022 -

Arjun Erigaisi convincingly won against the Kazakhstan no.1 Rinat Jumabayev to get himself in the lead. Top seed of 22nd Dubai Open 2022, GM Alexandr Predke ended FM Ayush Sharma's unbeaten run to become the coleader. Arjun will inevitably face Predke in Round 7. They both are at 5.5/6 each. Praggnanandhaa, Sahaj Grover and Aravindh Chithambaram defeated GM Shardul Gagare, GM Raunak Sadhwani and Vaibhav Jayant Raut to trail the leaders by a half point each. IM Sammed Jaykumar Shete scored a fine victory over GM Aydin Suleymanli (AZE). Round 7 starts today at 5 p.m. local time, 6:30 p.m. IST. Photo: Rupali Mullick

A very unique Chess Program - India's Got Chess Talent gets underway

01/09/2022 -

There are many players in who are extremely passionate about chess but are unable to improve. They lack the guidance and direction. With India's Got Chess Talent we plan to help 32 chess lovers from all across India get trained under 4 of the most competent trainers of our country. The 32 players, from 14 different states and 2 Union Territories of India, have been selected through a rigorous process of over 700+ applicants. The four mentors are GM Debashis Das, GM Shyam Sundar, GM Swapnil Dhopade and GM Swayams Mishra. Each team has 8 participants and the training sessions of each team will happen on the ChessBase India YouTube channel. This will culminate into semi-finals and finals between the teams with the winning team getting special prizes and a special IGCT scholarship that will be announced by the winning mentor.

22nd Dubai Open 2022 R5: Ayush Sharma scores a golden hat-trick, Arjun Erigaisi now World no.18

01/09/2022 -

Rinat Jumabayev brought Praggnanandhaa's unbeaten run to a screeching halt. The Kazakhstan no.1 has emerged as the sole leader 5/5 at 22nd Dubai Open 2022. He is closely followed by four players at a half point behind. Arjun Erigaisi scored a 20-move victory against Mahammad Muradli (AZE) to become World no.18 in the live ratings. The only other Indian at 4.5/5 is FM Ayush Sharma. He is having a phenomenal run. He defeated his third GM of the event so far, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu. Untitled Vaibhav Jayant Raut defeated IM Prraneeth Vuppala to move to 4/5. WGM Vantika Agrawal won against Argentina no.1 GM Sandro Mareco. Round 6 starts today at 5 p.m. local time, 6:30 p.m. IST. Photo: Rupali Mullick

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