Indian Grandmaster Aravindh Chithambaram’s coach Ramesh RB, a Dronacharya awardee, feels the 25-year-old is more talented ...

Bengaluru: In the space of less than four months, India has another world champion in chess. Grandmaster Pranav Venkatesh is ...

Mental conditioning coach Paddy Upton was part of D Gukesh’s team for the FIDE World Championship, where the 18-year-old ...

Pranav Venkatesh became only the fourth Indian to win the prestigious World Junior Championship in classical chess, joining ...

The other members of Team Gukesh were Grzegorz Gajewski, Paddy Upton (mental conditioning coach), Radoslaw Wojtaszek, Pentala Harikrishnan, Jan Krzysztof Duda, Viswanathan Anand (mentor).

Five-time world chess champion Viswanathan Anand has long been a source of inspiration for chess players in India.

Indian Grandmaster Aravindh Chithambaram has been making waves in the chess world, recently clinching the prestigious Prague ...

In chess, 18-year-old Indian Grandmaster Pranav Venkatesh dominated the FIDE World Junior Championship 2025 to claim the ...

After Anand, India struggled to produce a steady stream of super-elite chess talents. For a brief period, Pentala Harikrishna and later Vidit kept India relevant in elite chess, but such exceptional ...

Story continues below this ad Between Anand and Pranav, there were Koneru Humpy (world junior girls champion in 2001), Pentala Harikrishna (2004), Abhijeet Gupta (2008), Harika Dronavalli (world ...

Magnus Carlsen. File photo: AFP/ Benjamin Cremel After Gukesh became the youngest World Champion at 18, Keymer said in a social media post that he "enjoyed being stuck in Spain for three weeks" ...

India's top chess players have earned nominations for the Times of India Sports Awards 2024. The Chess Player of the Year award will be announced on February 22 in Lucknow. Nominees include Gukesh ...