Indian Grandmasters R Praggnanandhaa and Aravindh Chithambaram came out as joint-leaders after the end of Round 4.

A 17-year-old from India will become the youngest to play for the World Chess Championship crown. Gukesh Dommaraju will face the current champion, Ding Liren from China, later this year.

R Praggnanandhaa failed to find a win against David Navara while playing with white pieces in the opening round of Prague ...

After losses in Round 13, D Gukesh and R Praggnanandhaa played out a tie-breaker in the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters, with the former coming good in sudden-death to win.

“We truly started to piece together our lives around ... an ancient game of strategy believed to have originated in India. Soon, people engrossed over a chess board became a common sight across ...

Unlike the game itself, however, other pieces— smaller nations— are traded ... but in building a stable economy that allows India to reclaim as much independence as possible from this chess game.

Freestyle chess demands that Gukesh fights the habit of calculation and preparation, something he has aced while becoming ...

R Praggnanandhaa and D Gukesh (Tata Steel Chess Tournament Photo ... Playing with the white pieces, the Indian youngster opened with a King’s Pawn, leading to a classic Italian Game.