Important for Divya to compete with men: India women’s team coach Abhijit Kunte

Atreyo Mukhopadhyay It’s tough to succeed at the higher altitudes of professional sports. Tougher is to…

FIDE WORLD CUP: Five less famous Indians to watch out for

Atreyo Mukhopadhyay The rise of the leading trio of Indian chess happened at such a rapid…

Gukesh hails Divya Deshmukh’s World Cup win

Divya Deshmukh recently won the FIDE Women’s World Cup 2025 in Batumi, Georgia, and that triumph…

Divya wins historic World Cup, GM title cherry on the cake

Atreyo Mukhopadhyay The protagonists were different but the initial and raw emotions the same. Divya Deshmukh…

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…

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…

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…

Case of curious disparity in standards of men’s and women’s chess

By Atreyo Mukhopadhyay Chess is one sport where men and women can compete on an equal…

Life after Anand for Indian chess following Olympiad double gold

What after Viswanathan Anand? The question bugged Indian chess fans for years. The country that produced…