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World Team 2022 R3-4: A mixed day for India

22/11/2022 -

India defeated Azerbaijan in the third round of World Team Chess Championship 2022. Vidit Gujrathi's great turnaround against Shakhriyar Mamedyarov proved to be the key win which earned the team the first victory of the event. However, India suffered a crushing defeat against the 44th Olympiad Gold medalist team Uzbekistan. Even without the reigning World Rapid champion, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, the team is quite strong under the guidance of Ivan Sokolov. India must score against the USA in the fifth round today starting at 6:30 p.m. IST. A win guarantees a spot in the Knockout stage, whereas a draw will leave things into others' hands. Photo: FIDE/Mark Livshitz

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Commonwealth 2022 R7: Pranesh clinches Gold in Under-16 Boys with two rounds to spare

21/11/2022 -

GM-elect IM Pranesh M secured the first Gold for India at the Commonwealth Chess Championships 2022. He scored 7/7 and left everyone far behind. The 15-year-old has also scored an impressive 5/7 in the Open event. GM Mitrabha Guha maintains his sole lead 6/7. He drew with IM P Shyam Nikhil in the seventh round. GM Aravindh, IM Shyam, GM Lalit and GM Visakh are in pursuit at 5.5/7. 13-year-old CM Gaurang Bagwe bounced back well by winning against IM Dushyant Sharma. He is the sole leader in both Under-14 and Under-20 Boys category and poised for a double Gold finish. Speaking of impressive, WIM Bhagyashree Thipsay won against National under-18 champion, CM Soham Kamotra. She is currently the top scorer among female participants 5/7. Round 8 in the Open section starts today at 4 p.m. local time and IST. Photo: Chess Federation of Sri Lanka

World Team 2022 R1-2: India starts with two draws

21/11/2022 -

India drew both of their matches against Israel and Poland on the first day of World Team Chess Championship 2022. In both games, Vidit missed some good winning chances. Sethuraman could not find a slightly difficult to spot winning continuation in the first game and lost the second one. S L Narayanan saved the day for the team as he scored an important and the sole victory of the day for India in the second round. India is currently at third place 2/4 in Group B. They will face the current top two teams Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan in the third and fourth round today starting at 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. IST. Photo: FIDE/Mark Livshitz

MCCT Finals R7: Praggnanandhaa beats Arjun Erigaisi, So finishes second

21/11/2022 -

Praggnanandhaa won against Arjun Erigaisi in the final round of Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals 2022. Both of them scored 9/21 each to finish fifth and sixth respectively. They also earned US$ 22500 each. The rematch between them will take place starting next week at Tata Steel Chess India 2022 Rapid and Blitz which begins on Tuesday 29th November 2022. Anish Giri defeated Wesley So to finally end his four-match losing streak. Still it did not help his overall standings as So finished second 13/21 and Giri last 6/21. Carlsen beat Duda to score a staggering 20/21. Liem won against Mamedyarov to secure third place 11/21. Photo: ChessBase India live stream

Magnus Carlsen applauds Indian chess talents and fans

20/11/2022 -

Magnus Carlsen is in scintillating form in San Francisco as he not only won the Champions Chess Tour Finals, but the entire 2022 event. In round 6 he played an excellent match against Praggnanandhaa to win 2.5-0.5. After the match ended, we were able to get Magnus on the livestream to discuss some of the critical moments from the match. The world champion also showed us a very interesting position that he had studied at a training camp recently. All of this happened at 4.30 a.m. Indian time! A very special interview that ended with Magnus praising the work that ChessBase India is doing and giving a big shout out to the Indian talents and fans!  

India starts as the top seed in Group B at World Teams 2022 starting today

20/11/2022 -

Three months after winning the Bronze medal at the 44th Chess Olympiad 2022, Indian men's team will start their FIDE World Team Championship campaign on Sunday 20th November at Jerusalem, Israel. The tournament format is same as last year's World Women Team Championship 2021. The top four teams from each group will advance to the Quarterfinals. India finished at fourth place in the previous edition in 2019, they would definitely like to better that finish this time. Team India consists of Vidit Gujrathi, Nihal Sarin, S L Narayanan, Sethuraman S P, K Sasikiran and Abhijeet Gupta. Round 1 starts today at 6:30 p.m. IST. Photo: FIDE/Mark Livshitz

Commonwealth 2022 R5-6: Mitrabha regains his sole lead

20/11/2022 -

GM Mitrabha Guha regained his sole lead by defeating GM Venkatesh M R in the sixth round of Commonwealth Chess Championships 2022. He moved to 5.5/6. Currently GM Aravindh Chithambaram and IM P Shyam Nikhil are the only two players trailing by a half point at 5/6 each. Both Shyam and Aravindh halted GM-elect IM Pranesh M and CM Gaurang Bagwe's phenomenal run by defeating them respectively. WGM-elect WIM Sakshi Chitlange lost to GM Visakh N R after scoring a win against GM Neelotpal Das in the fourth round. WIM Bhagyashree Thipsay and Sakshi are currently top female scorer at 4/6 each. Round 7 in the Open section starts today at 4 p.m. local time and IST. Photo: Chess Federation of Sri Lanka

Carlsen and Nakamura chime on Messi and Ronaldo posing for Louis Vuitton before FIFA World Cup 2022

20/11/2022 -

A little less than 24 hours before the start of the first match of FIFA World Cup 2022, world-famous fashion brand Louis Vuitton shared an image of football icons Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo posing with a chess board. The first thing that chess enthusiasts do when seeing someone set up a position is to find whether the position ever occurred in a tournament game. It turns out that it actually does. Have you figured it out yet? Let us take a look at the position and what the world's best had to say about it. Don't forget to share your thoughts about the photo and who do you think will win a chess game between Messi and Ronaldo. Photo: Annie Leibovitz/Louis Vuitton

Magnus Carlsen wins MCCT Finals 2022 with a round to spare

20/11/2022 -

Magnus Carlsen defeated R Praggnanandhhaa 2.5-0.5 to win the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals 2022 with one round to spare. Praggnanandhaa might have lost two games and the matches but he is being forged in the battlefield. This learning experience is certainly helping him to become stronger. He has already shown traits of the world champion in this event and at Asian Continental Championship 2022 too. So one should not take these losses to their hearts because Praggnanandhaa will bounce back stronger and roar louder in the days to come. Arjun Erigaisi made a short work of Liem Quang Le scoring a 2.5-0.5 win. It was once again a minimal day as all four matches needed only three games to produce an outcome. Praggnanandhaa will face Arjun in the final round 7 which starts tonight, 21st November at 1:30 a.m. IST. Photo: Champions Chess Tour

Shinya Kojima wins Japan Open 2022

19/11/2022 -

The last couple of years saw the pandemic take its toll on Over-the-board events. This year has been far better. Travel has again become possible worldwide, with Japan also reopening to tourists from October. Sheldon Donaldson shares his thoughts with us again. Yet, the more things changed, the more they seem to have remained the same. IM Shinya Kojima pulled off yet another win at the Japan Open 2022. He won the previous edition early this year in January. Once again he remained undefeated. Check out the tournament report by Mayur Gondhalekar and his good friend Sheldon Donaldson who also took part in this event. Photo: National Chess Society of Japan

MCCT Finals R5: Praggnanandhaa wins a thriller against Duda

19/11/2022 -

R Praggnanandhaa had his best match of MCCT Finals so far against Jan-Krzysztof Duda. They had six decisive games and White won in them all. They were trading wins and the 17-year-old won a must-win fourth game to force tie-breaks. The teenager started the tie-breaks with a win which put Duda in a must-win situation and he won that. Praggnanandhaa drew the Armageddon with black pieces. Thus, he won the match. Arjun Erigaisi made a short work of Anish Giri in just three games. Former World Blitz champion, Liem Quang Le stretched Magnus Carlsen to his limit and the World no.1 had to win the Armageddon to clinch the match. Carlsen vs Praggnanandhaa and Liem vs Arjun is set for Round 6 which starts tonight, 20th November at 1:30 a.m. IST. Photo: ChessBase India live stream

Subhayan Kundu dominates 3rd DD-DBCA Rating Open 2022

18/11/2022 -

Top seed of the tournament, Subhayan Kundu scored an unbeaten 8.5/9 to win 3rd DD-DBCA Rating Open 2022. He finished a full point ahead of the competition. Kunal Chatterjee, Anurag Jaiswal and Ritabrata Chakraborty scored 7.5/9 each. They were placed second, third and fourth according to tie-breaks. Fifth place finisher Vivek Sharma was the only one to extract a half point from the eventual champion, Subhayan. The total cash prize fund of the tournament was ₹300000. The top three prizes were ₹40000 and a trophy, ₹30000 and ₹20000 each. Check out the champion's favorite game from the tournament analyzed by himself. Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Commonwealth 2022 R1-4: Mitrabha outwits Aravindh, gains sole lead

18/11/2022 -

India's 72nd GM Mitrabha Guha scored a big victory over the top seed of the tournament, GM Aravindh Chithambaram. Their rivalry started over nine years ago and so far they have had only one draw in their nine encounters. Mitrabha won an exciting battle to gain sole lead 4/4. GM-elect IM Pranesh M is one of the six players at 3.5/4. He defeated a former Commonwealth Gold medalist, GM Deep Sengupta in the fourth round. The teenager is also leading the Under-14 Open with a perfect 4/4. WGM-elect Sakshi Chitlange and veteran WIM Bhagyashree Thipsay are currently the top female scorers at 3/4 each. Round 5 in the Open section starts today at 4 p.m. local time and IST. Photo: Shahid Ahmed

MCCT Finals R4: Arjun Erigaisi beats Mamedyarov, ends his win drought

18/11/2022 -

Arjun Erigaisi scored his first point in the fourth round of Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals. After missing a win in the first game, the teenager ensured that he does not let another opportunity slip by. He won the second one by seizing his material advantage in the endgame. In the third game, he missed a slightly difficult tactic. However, in the fourth game he made a beautiful finish to win the match 1-3 in his favor. Praggnanandhaa drew three games and lost one against So to lose the match 1.5-2.5. He just needed to be unafraid in the third game to avoid a loss. Carlsen and Liem were the other two victors of the round against Giri and Duda respectively. It's Arjun vs Giri and Praggnanandhaa vs Duda in the fifth round, starting tonight, 19th November at 1:30 a.m. IST. Photo: ChessBase India live stream

Kaustuv Kundu conquers 3rd TTCA Rating Open 2022

17/11/2022 -

Kaustuv Kundu scored an unbeaten 8/9 to win 3rd TTCA Rating Open 2022. He finished a half point ahead of the field. S Prasanna and Arpan Das made 7.5/9 each. They were placed second and third according to tie-breaks. Kaustuv defeated the eventual runner-up in the seventh round. The total prize fund of the tournament was ₹360000. The top three prizes were ₹55000, ₹40000 and ₹25000 along with a trophy each. A total of 238 players took part in this event. The organizer Tiswadi Taluka Chess Association took the initiative to popularize chess across the state of Goa by organizing tournaments like these. Photo: IA Arvind Mhamal