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World champion Gukesh Dommaraju’s 2025 touched a new low after he lost a blitz game to a 12-year-old prodigy, FIDE Master (FM) Sergey Sklokin, at the ongoing World Blitz Championship 2025 in Doha thanks to a blunder under time pressure from the teenage world champion from India. Even though blitz is not Gukesh’s best format, there…
Indian chess star R Praggnanandhaa has won the FIDE Circuit 2025, creating history for Indian chess. With this big achievement, Praggnanandhaa has officially qualified for the Candidates Tournament 2026, which decides who will challenge the World Chess Champion. He is now the only Indian male player to qualify for Candidates 2026 through the FIDE Circuit….
Three-year-old Indian boy Sarvagya has achieved something that even legendary players like Viswanathan Anand, Magnus Carlsen, and D. Gukesh did not do at such a young age—he has received an official FIDE rating. With this achievement, Sarvagya has become the youngest rated chess player in the world, surprising the global chess community. A New Record…
Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh faced a tough moment in his chess career as he almost broke down after suffering his third consecutive defeat in an ongoing international tournament. The 18-year-old prodigy, who has been one of India’s brightest young stars in chess, looked visibly upset after losing to another teenager opponent. The defeat came as…
Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh beat the former World Blitz champion Nodirbek Abdusattorov of Uzbekistan in the final on April 9. In the double-elimination event, Gukesh lost the first game 1.5-0.5, but the 16-year-old came back, beating his compatriot by the exact same score in the second game. The first game of the ‘new’ match was…