Pranav Venkatesh, the World Junior Chess Champion, has his sights set on becoming the World Chess Champion. The 18-year-old ...

D Gukesh and Arjun Erigaisi will not lack any motivation to go after Magnus Carlsen, feels the legendary Viswanathan Anand.

India's first Grandmaster, he has five world championship titles and continues to work with young athletes and has influenced ...

CHENNAI: Not many would ever imagine that a small boy, all of just seven years old, watching his idol Viswanathan Anand play a World Chess Championship match in his home city against Magnus ...

CHENNAI: Not many would ever imagine that a small boy, all of just seven years old, watching his idol Viswanathan Anand play a World Chess Championship match in his home city against Magnus ...

If ‘chess is the gymnasium of the mind’, as the French ... Of them, four (Gukesh Dommaraju, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, Aravindh Chithambaram and Viswanathan ‘Vishy’ Anand) are from Tamil Nadu; the ...

but also for a chess academy set up by Viswanathan Anand, five-time world champion, with WestBridge. Gukesh Dommaraju, also 18, last year became the youngest player to win the world champion title.

KHANDEKAR: It's a striking contrast to just a few decades ago, when India's first chess champion was growing up in Chennai. Viswanathan Anand is a five-time world champion who even bested Russian ...

And then some kids will just cry if they don't win. KHANDEKAR: It's a striking contrast to just a few decades ago, when India's first chess champion was growing up in Chennai. Viswanathan Anand is a ...

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