A man who has beaten Vishy Anand twice in his teenages, became an IM with a career high Elo of 2430, has trained numerous grandmasters without charging them any fee and remains an active chess player even till date, winning over 30 FIDE rated events in the his career. A man with such accomplishments definitely has to be someone special. Meet Anup Deshmukh, the man with a golden heart. Anup's achievements are so many that they cannot be crammed into one article, but FM Sauravh Kherdekar has made an attempt on this front. It's an article not to be missed. Get to know this gem of Indian chess better!

Finding a good coach or an academy in chess has been difficult for many players and parents. When chess parents Hemangi and Rishi Gupta from Mumbai faced the same problem for their daughter Ananya Gupta, they did not decide to send her outside the city to work with high class trainers. Instead, they got the best trainers from all over India to come their home and started the iLead Chess Academy from their living room. The vision was to provide high class training to kids in Mumbai and the state of Maharashtra. Money making was never the aim. Hemangi and Rishi have in many ways helped in transforming the chess training scene in the city. An article on the work they have done by FM Sauravh Kherdekar.