Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju came dangerously close to scoring a decisive result in Tuesday’s seventh game of his world championship match against Ding Liren only to allow his opponent off the hoo...
12.03.2024 Theguardian.com and 8 sitesDing Liren and Gukesh Dommaraju played to a seventh straight draw in their world championship match on Saturday after 2hr 35min, leaving the $2. 5m contest deadlocked at 5-5 with five games to go. The...
12.07.2024 Theguardian.com and 6 sitesSometime in early 2019, five-time world chess champion Viswanathan Anand was invited to address a gathering in Bengaluru. The attendees were not chess players or coaches or sports administrators. In f...
12.07.2024 Indiatimes.comBy Siddharth Vishwanathan: Nine rounds. Four and a half points each. Six straight draws. Gukesh vs. Ding Liren is proving to be the attritional contest many anticipated. As Garry Kasparov once said, a...
12.06.2024 Indiatoday.inIn 2013, Dr Rajinikanth, an ENT surgeon, and Dr Padma, a microbiologist, introduced their seven-year-old son D. Gukesh to chess to keep him occupied while they were at work. It soon became apparent that he had a natural inclination to take on mental challenges. It also happened to be the year Chennai was hosting the World Chess Championship between the defending world champion Anand Viswanathan and Norway’s new grandmaster, Magnus Carlsen. “He would spend hours studying and practising chess, dev...
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