India’s Double-Queen end game at Chess World Cup

Atreyo Mukhopadhyay It’s tempting to find similarities between the triumph of D Gukesh against Ding Liren…

COURSE COLLISION IN INDIA: New golf tour says it’s open to all, old guard apprehensive

The normally staid ambience of Indian golf is waking up to some action. A new and…

Divya’s World Cup diary: Taming the Chinese, reaching the final and yearning for sleep

Atreyo Mukhopadhyay Asked what she wants to do after achieving her best performance till date at…

Delhi, Chennai contenders for Chess World Cup, with Ahmedabad in the mix

Hosting the FIDE World Cup later this year will be a fitting feather in the cap…

It’s Humpy and another Indian versus China in women’s chess World Cup semis

Atreyo Mukhopadhyay India versus China — there is a subplot brewing in the heat of the…

Carlsen and other trophies: Celebrating India’s year on International Chess Day

Atreyo Mukhopadhyay The World Cup is a good reference point to study the phenomenal rise of…

Humpy India’s best bet for women’s Candidates spot from World Cup

  Thanks to Viswanathan Anand and the generation of players known as his ‘children’, India has…

A pattern in India letting the advantage slip

Atreyo Mukhopadhyay There was something familiar for the hardcore India fan in the team’s capitulation while…

Gukesh underplays Kasparov’s remark on Carlsen era crumbling

As if beating Magnus Carlsen twice in one month wasn’t enough, D Gukesh made the occasion…

Sweeping success in world cadet chess explains India’s domination at top level

Talk about Indian chess revolves mostly around the top of the pyramid. Three in the world’s…