by Amrita Priya | Sep 10, 2025
(September 10, 2025) When R Vaishali sat across the board from Belarusian Grandmaster Olga Badelka at the ongoing FIDE Grand Swiss 2025 at Samarkand in Uzbekistan, she had little more than a minute on her clock. For most players, that kind of pressure would be...
by Amrita Priya | Aug 17, 2025
(August 17, 2024) In Liverpool, a 10-year-old Indian-origin schoolgirl from northwest London has altered the record books of chess. Bodhana Sivanandan defeated 60-year-old grandmaster Pete Wells in the final round of the 2025 British Chess Championships, becoming the...
by Amrita Priya | Aug 12, 2025
(August 12, 2025) On July 28, 2025, in Batumi, Georgia, 19-year-old Divya Deshmukh scripted a chess history defeating former world champion Koneru Humpy in a tense rapid tiebreak to win the FIDE Women’s World Cup. The victory instantly earned her the Grandmaster...
by Namrata Srivastava | Dec 28, 2022
(December 28, 2022) It has been a year of sports for India. From our young guns’ marvellous performance at the Commonwealth Games to sports stars like Nikhat Zareen, Ravi Kumar Dahiya, Neeraj Chopra, and Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa securing gold at the individual...
by Charu Thakur | Dec 24, 2022
(December 24, 2022) SL Narayanan was all of nine when the board game with 64 black and white squares grabbed his attention. It was at this young age that he learnt that the knight in chess moves multiple squares each time while the pawn moves forward one square. Such...
