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 Charu Thakur | Nov 16, 2024
(November 16, 2024) In the hushed halls of the Bavarian Open in 2022, fourteen-year-old Shreyas Royal was about to make history. Across nine games, he played with the skill of a seasoned grandmaster, carefully outsmarting his opponents and securing seven points. This...
by Charu Thakur | May 12, 2024
(May 12, 2024) Ever since she was little, R Vaishali found herself drawn to an 8×8 square grid with alternating dark and light squares – a chessboard. She would spend hours learning the game and coming up with strategies to oust her opponents. She harboured...
