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  R Vaishali creates history, becomes first Indian to win FIDE Women's Candidates

  Other Sports | April 16, 2026 10:49 IST

  R Vaishali created history in Cyprus to become the first Indian to win the FIDE Women's Candidates. She defeated Kateryna Lagno to win the second-most prestigious tournament and will now challenge Ju Wenjun for the Women’s World Championship crown.

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  Pragnanandhaa beats world champion Gukesh to clinch Tata Steel Masters 2025 title

  Other Sports | February 03, 2025 10:54 IST

  R Pragnanandhaa has stunned world champion D Gukesh to win the Tata Steel Masters 2025 chess title. It was an all-India final played in Wijk aan Zee in the Netherlands on Sunday (February 2) and Pragnanandhaa triumphed in the tiebreaker.

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  Indian GM D Gukesh creates history; becomes youngest to beat World Champion Magnus Carlsen

  Other Sports | October 17, 2022 14:48 IST

  The Indian chess prodigy D Gukesh has stunned the World Champion Magnus Carlsen. Gukesh continued what has been a superb year so far for the young Indian players as he became the third one to put it across Carlsen after Praggnanandhaa and Erigaisi, defeated Carlsen last month.

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  Chess-playing robot breaks opponent boy's finger at Moscow Open

  World | July 26, 2022 3:30 IST

  The parents of the injured boy want to contact the prosecutor's office and take action against Moscow Chess Federation authorities.

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  Youngest Grandmaster Abhimanyu Mishra deserves feat and destined for greatness, feel coaches

  Other Sports | July 01, 2021 19:52 IST

  Mishra is also the youngest ever International Master, having gone past the mark held by Indian R Praggnanandhaa, two years ago.

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  Viswanathan Anand loses to Fabiano Caruana in Norway Chess tourney

  Other Sports | June 07, 2018 20:56 IST

  After jumping to joint lead following a crushing victory over Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France, Anand could not repeat the magic and Caruana deserved all the credit for taking chances.

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  Winless Anand to play Vachier-Lagrave in round 7 of Norway chess tournament

  Other Sports | June 05, 2018 16:11 IST

  The Indian ace still has to play Fabiano Caruana of the United States and ultra-solid Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine in the remaining rounds.

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  Viswanathan Anand holds Magnus Carlsen, stays in title contention in Norway Blitz

  Other Sports | June 03, 2018 16:13 IST

  Having won two games in a row with white pieces earlier in the tournament, Carlsen could do little against Anand this time and the Norwegian was not quite happy with his play.

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  Viswanathan Anand draws with Ding Liren, remains joint second in Norway chess tournament

  Other Sports | May 31, 2018 18:49 IST

  With the invincible tag around him these days, Ding Liren did not face any real danger from Anand, who has 1.5 points in all.

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  Grandmaster Baskaran Adhiban wins title in Reykjavik Open

  Other Sports | March 16, 2018 0:31 IST

  Adhiban became only the second Indian after Abhijeet Gupta (in 2016) to win the prestigious Reykjavik Open.

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  Viswanathan Anand wins Tal Memorial Rapid Chess tournament

  Other Sports | March 05, 2018 12:28 IST

  The Indian Grandmaster Anand defeated Ian Nepomniachtchi, Alexander Grischuk and Daniil Dubov of Russia and Hikaru Nakamura of the United States en route to his final score.

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  Viswanathan Anand draws with Peter Svidler in Tata Steel Masters chess

  Other Sports | January 21, 2018 22:59 IST

  Looking for his sixth record title, Anand took his tally to 4.5 points out of a possible eight and now needs to score at least two wins in the remaining five rounds to be in with a chance to win the title.

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  Viswanathan Anand suffers shock defeat against Vladimir Kramnik

  Other Sports | January 21, 2018 16:27 IST

  The loss proved costly as Anand slipped to joint sixth spot from his overnight joint second position, while, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan stretched his lead to a full point after his third straight victory in the tournament.

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  Viswanathan Anand wins bronze at World Blitz Chess Championship

  Other Sports | December 30, 2017 22:49 IST

  After ending the first day of the Blitz category on a disappointing note, Anand was a class act on the final day as he won against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France.

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  Viswanathan Anand outclasses top-ranked Magnus Carlsen in World Rapid Chess Championship

  Other Sports | December 28, 2017 16:18 IST

  Playing with black pieces, the former world champion played the contest on an aggressive note which caught the world number one Carlsen off guard.

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  Viswanathan Anand, Vidit Gujrathi, Swapnil S win in Rd 6 of Isle of Man Chess

  Other Sports | September 29, 2017 16:20 IST

  After the sixth round, both Anand and Swapnil were at the joint third place along with 16 others with 4.5 points at the end of round six.

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  R Praggnanandhaa and S P Sethuram advance, Viswanathan Anand held at Chess tourney

  Other Sports | September 28, 2017 17:00 IST

  International Master Praggnanandhaa, who is just 12 years old, took 64 moves to force 26-year-old Howell to surrender, taking take his overall points to 3.5.

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  Viswanathan Anand wins, Harika Dronavalli draws in round 3 of Isle of Man Chess tourney

  Other Sports | September 26, 2017 18:13 IST

  Anand will face Latvian grandmaster Shirov Alexei, while Harika will take on French Grandmaster Laurent Fressinet in the fourth round.

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  Viswanathan Anand, Harika Dronavalli make good start at Isle of Man International tourney

  Other Sports | September 24, 2017 15:10 IST

  Anand notched up an emphatic win over American Marc Esserman, while Harika beat Englishman Oyama Akito in the first round late last night.

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  World Chess Cup: Indian challenge ends as Gujrathi, Sethurman bow out

  Other Sports | September 11, 2017 22:55 IST

  Earlier, five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand, B Adhiban, P Harikrishna, Murali Karthikeyan and Deep Sengupta had lost in the knockout event.