He managed to achieve what many professional players can only dream of—defeating one of the greatest chess players of all time.

In a wonderfully-scripted advertisement, chess world champions Viswanathan Anand and D Gukesh were involved in a generational ...

When D. Gukesh, the reigning world chess champion, goes to defend his title in two years’ time – there is a fair chance of it being an all-Indian affair. Arjun Erigaisi, now ranked world No.4, showed ...

Indians continue to make waves in world chess. After a fabulous 2024 for players from the country, Arjun Erigaisi began the ...

World chess champion Magnus Carlsen was recently disqualified from the World Rapid and Blitz Championships for wearing jeans, ...

Carlsen is a friend of Jan Henric Buettner, a Hamburg-born entrepreneur whose Weissenhaus Chess Academy sponsors the St.Pauli ...

Carlsen had married Ella Victoria Malone at a ceremony in Oslo on 4 January. The honeymoon, however, barely lasted a week and ...

Gukesh and Praggnanandhaa are among the first group of players at the WestBridge Anand Chess Academy (WACA), a program ...

Indian chess legends, including Viswanathan Anand and D Gukesh, celebrated Pongal with traditional dance at Anand's Tamil ...

The youngest chess world champion, Gukesh defeated incumbent world champion Ding Liren in December 2024 by a margin of 7.5 to ...

In December 2020, Anand partnered with WestBridge Capital to start WestBridge Anand Chess Academy a.k.a. WACA and identified a ... t the best and has much to do to catch up with the mighty Magnus ...

In the men’s section, Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi agreed to share ... who has had a role to play in Vaishali’s rise through the Westbridge Anand Chess Academy (WACA), posted on X: ...