Golden Year For Indian Chess! What Next?

'It will bring the next wave of awareness and pursuit of excellence from people who want to take chess as a game or a competitive sport or even as a career.' IMAGE: D Gukesh, the youngest World......

Is AICF Playing Spoilsport?

'The Asian Chess Championship will give great exposure for young chess players. But the AICF is curtailing the number of Indian players with a strange rule.' Kindly note the image has only been......

World Champ Gukesh dreams of chess in Olympics

Newly-crowned world chess champion D Gukesh is looking forward to the day when the sport will become a part of the Olympic curriculum, which, he said, would take it to an altogether different level......

Freestyle Chess: It's Gukesh vs Caruana in quarters

IMAGE: India’s D Gukesh just about made it to the knock-out stage, edging out Vladimir Fedoseev of Slovenia and Levon Aronian of United States, the last two finishers in the round-robin......

'I am still better than the young chess stars'

IMAGE: Magnus Carlsen is hunting on other grounds to show he is still the player to beat. Photograph: Mark Livshitz/FIDE Magnus Carlsen feels he's still better than the young generation......