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Express News Service CHENNAI: Sometime back, maybe about a year ago, Rameshbabu, father of R Vaishali, during a chat with this newspaper said that his daughter has just…

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Come April, chess followers in India – their number is rising rapidly – will have their eyes set on Toronto. The Canadian city is hosting the Candidates tournament. It is one of the most…

By Express News Service CHENNAI: Three players, GM Fedorov of Belarus, IM Asylbek of Kyrgyzstan and S Rohit of India are leading with one point each at the end of the…

Belarus GM Alexei Fedorov with the cup of joy. | Photo Credit: M. Periasamy Grandmaster Alexei Fedorov of Belarus clinched the title with a round to spare in the seventh Tamil Nadu IM Norm…

After the FIDE Chess Olympiad in Chennai last year, the buzz about the game has gone up. And, the Tamil Nadu State Chess Association (TNSCA) has stepped in with a promotion drive. “The…

Representational image of chess pieces on a board | Photo Credit: via Getty Images The Indian team has pulled out of the World Cadet Chess Championship scheduled to be held at Sharm el…

Comic relief: Grishchuk’s dry wit has a fan base of its own among chess lovers. ‘Sometimes you are in situations where you can either cry or laugh. And I would rather laugh,’ he says about…

S. Rohith Krishna, left, defeated Ritvik Krishnan to move into joint lead after the seventh round. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Top seed Aleksey Grebnev from Russia was joined at the…

On a day when decisive results proved elusive on the top three boards, Kazakhstan’s Abilmansur Abdilkhair sprang a surprise on the fourth. He defeated fourth seed Daakshin Arun to be among…