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Why going home feels like a vacation to India’s elite trio of D Gukesh, R Praggnanandhaa and Arjun Erigaisi

In a recent clip uploaded on its social media handles, FIDE asked some of the top chess players in the

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Magnus Carlsen vs Levon Aronian in Freestyle Chess final even as Norwegian wraps up Grand Slam Tour title

Magnus Carlsen will fight against Levon Aronian to claim the South Africa leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour

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Meet India’s chess tragics: A corporate honcho, a chocolatier, a film-maker, a content-creator & a superfan in cycle

In the world of chess, a sport experiencing exponential growth in India, the fans and followers are its lifeblood. The

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Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra explains why Gukesh’s results after becoming world champion are ‘normal’

World champion Gukesh D’s form since he became the youngest man in history at the age of 18 to ascend

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Gukesh’s ‘year of transition’ suffers another setback as world champion is knocked out of Chess World Cup in Round 3

An eight-man security cordon surrounds world champion D Gukesh as he walks out of the playing hall at Goa’s Resort

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For Mohamed Allam, only Palestinian at FIDE World Cup, chess is not war on the board… it’s a peaceful paradise

For a man who has just lost a game after persevering for nearly five hours, Mohamed Allam is unnaturally cheerful.

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Checkmate organisers troll FIDE’s Emil Sutovsky after Nakamura-Gukesh incident: ‘We sincerely apologize if players and fans had a good time’

Checkmate organisers troll FIDE’s Emil Sutovsky after Nakamura-Gukesh incident: ‘We sincerely apologize if players and fans had a good time’

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Ashok Koneru, Humpy’s dad and real chess obsessive of the family, makes a comeback after 22 years at Guntur Nationals

Some of the country’s most veteran grandmasters and the next line of India’s chess battlers have made their way to

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Nihal Sarin leads FIDE Grand Swiss after wild ending vs Parham Maghsoodloo; Vaishali on track for history

Gukesh Dommaraju and Arjun Erigaisi — who are among the top three seeded players at the ongoing FIDE Grand Swiss

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