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Vantika Agrawal beats former women’s world champion Anna Ushenina to take 1-0 lead at FIDE Women’s World Cup

Vantika Agrawal, who is currently an International Master with a rating of 2377, handed former women’s world champion Anna Ushenina

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Vishy Anand’s grade for Gukesh after Norway Chess: ‘I’ll give him a B… he deserved a D, but got a lot of answers correct’

Gukesh Dommaraju has had an interesting few months after becoming the youngest world chess champion in history last December by

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Magnus Carlsen leads after playing some ‘old-man chess’; Garry Kasparov says Gukesh played some terrible games today

It’s been a comeback of epic proportions from Magnus Carlsen, who is now the sole leader in the SuperUnited Rapid

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‘Nice that I could win against Magnus from two losing positions in a row’: Gukesh who topped rapid format at Zagreb

World classical champion D Gukesh was asked after Day 1 of Rapid chess at Zagreb if he was on Cloud

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Boris Spassky passes away: Rich tributes and mourning in chess world as 10th world champion, passes away

Boris Spassky, the 10th world champion of chess, has passed away, FIDE announced on Friday. He was 88. He became

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Gukesh ends round robin stage winless, but sneaks into quarters of Freestyle Chess at Weissenhaus

Call it the curse of being a world champion! Gukesh Dommaraju went winless in nine qualifying round robin games at

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Hans Niemann slams Magnus Carlsen, calls him ‘arrogant, entitled, unaware and cowardly’

American GM Hans Niemann reignited an old feud with Magnus Carlsen after launching a verbal attack on the world no

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Exclusive: As peace talks fail, Freestyle Chess threatens to take FIDE to court

Peace talks between FIDE and Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour collapsed on Monday, with the latter calling on the world

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‘Most stressful day’: Praggnanandhaa jokes he’ll buy Arjun Erigaisi something after winning Tata Steel chess title ahead of Gukesh

Praggnanandhaa defeated world champion Gukesh in a tense tiebreak that went into sudden death to emerge as the champion of

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