Indian Women’s Team off to a slow start
World Team Chess Championship 2019 (Women), Astana Report by GM Swapnil Dhopade The FIDE World Team Championship is a 10-team round-robin tournament which is...
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Iniyan Paneerselvam becomes India’s 61st Chess Grandmaster
Iniyan Paneerselvam became India’s 61st Chess Grandmaster when he crossed the 2500-rating mark at the Noisiel Open in France. Iniyan defeated GM Sergey Fedorchuk...
Announcement – Nareen FIDE Rated
Narenn Convention Championship All India Fide Open Rating Chess Tournament – 2018 – 193059 / TEL /2018 AICF has received complaints from players /...
The Hound of the Baskarville gives India a solid start
The Hound of the Baskarville gives India a solid start Report by GM Srinath Narayanan; All Photos by David Llada About a century ago,...
World Teams: India to take on Sweden in the first round
FIDE World Team Championship 2019 The World Team Championships for men and women is taking place from March 4 – 15 in Astana, Kazakhstan....
Sasikiran secures third place; Five Indians score norms in Aeroflot Open
Grandmaster Sasikiran Krishnan finished third after drawing third-seeded Grandmaster Wang Hao of China in the ninth and final round at the ‘Category A’ of...
AICF Secretary Bharat Singh Chauhan meets FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich
In a positive development for the status of chess in India, AICF Secretary Bharat Singh Chauhan met with the FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich in...
“We will beat them all” says Ramco Sponsored Indian Team ahead of World Teams Championship 2019
Team India will be gunning for what could be a historic gold medal at the World Team Chess Championship that is slated to begin...
Sasikiran suffers first loss
Photo: David Llada Grandmaster Sasikiran Krishnan suffered his first defeat in the seventh round of Aeroflot Open 2019 underway at Hotel Cosmos, Moscow, Russia....
Abhijeet Gupta wins Cannes Open
Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta won the Cannes International Open after taking an easy draw with Pier Luigi Basso of Italy in the ninth and final...