The bespectacled 19-year-old from Chennai, a city that has become the cradle of Indian chess, came from behind to upstage the ...

Magnus Carlsen has been somewhat critical of Gukesh Dommaraju in recent months, especially after the latter was crowned the ...

The teenager became the first Indian after Viswanathan Anand to win the title. Anand won it thrice (2003, 2004 and 2006) ...

D Gukesh maintained his half point lead at the top of the Master standings at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament.

R Praggnanandhaa triumphed over world champion D Gukesh 2-1 in a thrilling tiebreaker to win the Tata Steel Masters chess ...

In the Challengers' section, Divya Deshmukh got a much-needed victory over Irina Bulmaga of Romania but R Vaishali found the going tough and lost to Aydin Suleymanli of Azerbaijan. Divya, on three ...

A subsequent draw against Dutch No. 1 Anish Giri offered a glimmer of hope, but a crushing loss to R Praggnanandhaa dealt a severe blow to his aspirations of winning the prestigious tournament in ...

World No. 3 Hikaru Nakamura has urged the world's top chess players, such as D Gukesh, to boycott FIDE, which could put his world championship ... D Gukesh becomes new India No. 1, overtakes ...

Freestyle Chess Grand Slam began at Weissenhaus, Germany, featuring a rapid event to decide eight knockout contenders. Indian GM D Gukesh faced tough matches, while Javokhir Sindarov shined, defeating ...

Indian president Droupadi Murmu honoured D Gukesh, the youngest world chess champion, with the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award. At 18, Chennai-born Gukesh stunned everyone and won the World ...