Indian Chess News

Hari wins Tata Steel group B

2012-01-30T03:44:00.001-05:00

Harikrishna has won the TATA Steel Group B chess tournament 2012.

Sahaj Grover wins bronze in world junior 2011

2011-08-17T13:30:00.001-04:00

Sahaj Grover has won a bronze medal in world junior chess championship 2011

Harika becomes GM

2011-07-24T01:19:00.002-04:00

Harika finished on second position in a all women chess tournament in China and obtained her final GM norm to become second female GM of India after Koneru Humpy.

Indian GrandMasters - Jan 2012 FIDE Rating

2011-06-28T11:00:00.008-04:00

Indian Grandmasters as of today with current FIDE rating

GM's (25): Vishy Anand (2799), Sasikiran (2700), P. Harikrishna (2665), SS Ganguly (2639), Koneru Humpy (2589), Parimarjan Negi (2641), Sandipan Chanda (2628), Abhijeet Gupta (2652), Gopal (2566), Abhijjet Kunte (2548), Arun Prasad (2530), P. Magesh Chandran (2573), DeepSen Gupta (2562), SP Sethuraman (2530), Adhiban (2561), Deepan Chakravary (2495), S. Kidambi (2474), RR Laxman(2434), Tejas Bakre (2509), Sriram Jha(2406), Pravin Thipsay (2435) , D. Barua (2460), Ramesh (2472), Neelotpal Das (2471), Harika (2516)
In addition to this, there are 68 IM's aspiring to become GM one day!!!

WGM's (12): S. Vijayalaxmi (IM-2415), Nisha Mohota (IM-2323), Tania Sachdev ( IM-2411), S. Meenakshi (2298), Eesha Karawade (IM-2348), Saumya Swaminathan(2280), Swati Ghate (2274), Arti Ramesh (2189) , Mary Ann Gomes (2377), Krutika Nadig (2234), Kiran Mohanty (2210), Padmini Rout (2383)

In addition to this, there are 17 WIM's aspiring to become WGM one day!!!

Harikrishna/Harika win Golds at asian chess 2011

2011-05-10T12:55:00.002-04:00

Harikrishna has won a gold medal in asian individual chess championship 2011. Harika has the women's gold medal in the same competition. Isha karawade has won the bronze medal.

Abhijit Gupta wins Dubai Open 2011

2011-04-19T00:00:00.001-04:00

Abhijit Gupta has won the strong Dubai Open chess tournament 2011 Parimarjan Negi finished on second position.

Humpy wins Qatar Womens Grand Prix 2011

2011-03-05T09:11:00.002-05:00

Humpy has won the very strong Qatar Womens Grand Prix 2011

Indian Chess Achievers (GM's)

2010-12-01T11:02:00.015-05:00

GM Sasikiran: Corsica masters 2011-1st, Hogeschool Zeeland 2010-1st, World team 2010-bronze, Asian indoor rapid09- bronze, Inventi 2009-2nd, Pamplona 2008-1st, World mind sport rapid 2008-silver, Najdorf Memorial 08-1st, Kolkata open 08-1st, Asian indoor 07 rapid/blitz-Gold, classic-silver, Ordix open 07-1st tied, MTel 07- 2nd tied, Asian games 06-Gold, La-roche-sur-yon 06-1st, Aeroflot Open 06-tied 1st, Benasque open 05-1st, Sigeman 05-1st, Parsvanath International 05-1st, Biel 04-2nd, Hogeschool Zeeland open 04-1st, Canaria-enRed-Internet chess 04-1st, Dubai open 04-2nd, Politican Cup 03-1st, North Sea cup 03-1st, Asian champ 03-gold, TanChinNam 02-1st, Goodricke international-2nd, Hasting International 00,01-1st, Commonwealth 00-gold, 03-silver, National Champion-3 times, Arjun award-2002
GM Harikrishna: Tata Steel-B-2012-1st, Asian chess 2011-gold, World team 2010-bronze, Nancy international 2009-1st, Spice cop USA2008-1st, Torre Memorial 07-2nd, Asian Games 06-Gold, Chess960 Jr rapid champion 06, Marks gyorgy memorial-Paks - 1st (06 & 07), Reykjavik open 06-tied 1st, Pamplona 05-2nd, Essent 05-1st, Sanjin hotel cup 05-1st, Bermuda International 05-1st, World Jr 04-gold, Dubai open 04-2nd, Hasting international 01-1st, Commonwealth 01-gold, World under 10-gold, 18-bronze, Arjun award-2006
GM Ganguly: World team 2010-gold, Asian champ-09-Gold, Parsvanath open 2009-1st, Commonwealth champ 08-2nd, Sydney international 08-1st, Parsvanath international-2nd, Asian indoor 07 rapid team-gold, classic-silver, ONGC cup international 06-1st, United Insurance GM Open 05-1st, Kolkatta int. open 04- tied 1st, Gibtelecom chess 04- 2nd, World Jr 02-bronze, Asian champ 01-bronze, World under 10-bronze, National Champion-6 times, Arjun award- 2005
GM Sandipan Chanda: Gibtelecom 2010-tied 1st, Kavala open 2009-2nd, Quebec open2007 -2nd tied, Canada open 07-2nd tied, World open 07-1st tied, Commonwealth 06-silver, Curacao 04- 1st, Benasque open 03- 1st tied, Schlosspark open 01-1st, Leinfeldener open 01-2nd
GM Abhijeet Kunte: Mayor's cup Mumbai 2008-1st tied, Asian individual 2007-bronze, Quebec open- 2nd tied, Canadian Open 2006- 1st, Parswanath int open 2005-2nd, British Champ 2003-1st, Kolkata int. open 2004- 1st, National Champion- 3 times
GM Koneru Humpy: World team 2011-1st board-Gold, Qatar grand prix 2010-1st, Mayor's cup 2009-1st tied, Turkey GP2009-1st, Mayor's cup Mumbai 2008- 1st tied, Asian indoor 07 rapid/blitz-gold, classic-silver, European club cup 07/8-champion, Kaupthing open 07-1st, HSG open 07-1st, Padmashri award 07, Asian Games 06-2 Golds, North ural cup 05-1st, Win TV open 04-2nd, Asian Women 03-gold, British ladies champ 02-gold & 00-gold, World Jr 02-silver & 01-gold, Elekes Memorial GM 02-1st, Hotel cup GM 01-1st, First & Third sat 01-1st, World under 10,12,14-golds, National Champion, Arjun award- 2003
GM Ramesh: Commonwealth champ 2007-gold, British Champ 2002-gold, Parsvanath International 2003-1st
GM P.Magesh Chandran: Badalona open-3rd, Montcada open 2009-1st, World open 2005-1st, UTD invitational GM 2005-1st
GM Barua: United Insurance-2009-1st,Euwe Stimulans 2007-2nd, Olympiad-gold-1993, Tata International 2003-1st, National Champion- 3 times, Arjun award-1983
GM Gopal: Gibtelecom 2010-tied 1st, World team 2010-bronze, Gjovic chess 2008-2nd, Gausdal classic 2008-2nd, Gibtelecom 2008-2nd tied, lake sevan round robin chess-2nd
GM Thipsay: Commonwealth 2004-bronze, National Champion- 7 times, Arjun award-1984 GM Neelotpal Das: San Sabastian international open 2006- 1st tied
GM Tejas Bakre: World under 16-Gold, First Saturday GM 2001-1st
GM Parimarjan Negi: Dubai open 2011-2nd, Parsvnath open 2011-2nd, National champ-2010, Malaysian open-1st, Politiken cup 2009-1st, World Jr 2008-2nd, Kaupthing open 2008-1st tied, World Youth star 2007-1st tied, World under 12-bronze
GM Deepan Chakravarthy: ONGC cup 2006-1st tied, Piloo Modi open 2004-2nd tied
GM Abhijeet Gupta: National champ 2011, Dubai Open 2011-1st, Kavla open 2010-1st, Asian champ 2010-bronze, Reykjavic 2010-tied 1st, Bad wiessee 09- tied 1st, Kavla open 2009-3rd, World Jr 2008-1st, Parsvanath international 2008-1st, Balaguer open 2007- 3rd tied, Andorra open 2006-2nd tied, Youth under 16 olympiad- 2 Silver
GM Arun Prasad: World team 2010-bronze, Scottish open 2009-1st
GM R R Laxman: Commonwealth chess 2010-gold
GM Harika:World team 2011- 2nd board-silver, Hangzhou 2011-2nd, Asian chess 2011-gold, Asain games-2010-bronze,National Champion 2009, Asian indoor rapid09-bronze, World Jr 2008-1st, Asian indoor 2007 rapid-gold, classic-silver, World under 10,12-silvers, 14,18-golds, Asian Women 2003-silver, Commonwealth 2006,07-gold, Arjun award-2007
GM S.Kidambi: Badalona open 2008-1st, Open Olomouc 2004-1st,
GM Deep SenGupta: Hasting 2011-1st, Vaujany 2010-1st, Cannes 2010-tied 1st, Canberra open 2009-1st, NK Schaken open 2007-1st tied, World under 12- Gold,
GM Adhiban: World team 2010-bronze, National Champion 2009, Wolrd under 16-gold,
GM SP Sethuraman- World under 16-Gold

Indian chess achievers -Others

2010-11-13T23:50:00.004-05:00

Saptharshi Roy: Canadian open 2005-1st
IM M.R.Venkatesh: Commonwealth 2006-bronze
IM Tania Sachdev: Arjun award 09, World mind sport08-silver, Asian Women 2007-gold, National Champion-2 times
IM Lalith Babu: Parsvanath open 2012-3rd, Hasting 2011-2nd, Leiden open 2009-1st
IM Shyam Sundar- Hasting 2011-2nd
IM Eesha Karawade: World Jr 2004-bronze, World team 2009-silver
WGM Saumya Swaminathan: National champion 2010, World Jr 2009-Gold WGM Meenakshi: Asian Women 2004-silver
IM Vijayalaxmi: Cutro open 2007-1st, Athens open 06-1st tied, Chess Olympiad 00, 02-silver, Asian women 01-silver, Commonwealth- gold,silver, National Champion-6 times, Arjun award-2000
IM Nisha Mohota: Asian Women 2001-bronze, National Champion
WGM Arti Ramaswami: World under 18 girls-gold, National Champion WGM Swati Ghate: National Champion
WGM Mary Ann Gomes - National Champion 2011, World under 18 girls - bronze, Olympiad 2008-silver-board 5
WGM Krutika Nadig- National Champion
IM D.V. Prasad: National Champion - 2 times
IM P. Konguwel- National Champion
IM Rohit G: World under 14-silver, Youth under 16 olympiad-silver
WIM Bhyagashri Thipse: Asian Women--1991-gold, National Champion - 5 times, Arjun award-1987
WIM Anupama Gokhale: Asian Women-1985,87- gold, National Champion- 5 times, Arjun award-1990
WIM Rohini Khadilkar - Asian Women - 1981,83 - gold, National Champion-5 times, Arjun award-1981
IM Manual Aron - National Champion - 9 times, Arjun award-1961
WIM Jayashri Khadilkar - National Champion - 4 times
WIM Vasanti Khadilkar - National Champion
Sayantan das- World under 12 - gold
WGM Padmini raut- World Junior 2010-bronze, World under 14 - gold
IM Vidit Gujrathi- World under 14-gold,under16-silver
IM Sahaj Grover: World under 10-gold
IM N. Srinath: World under 12-gold
Girish Kaushik: World under 10-gold
Debasis Das- World U18-bronze
Karthikeyan Murali- U12- Gold
Moheneesh- World U 8- gold
Sahajasri - World U 10 girls-gold
Furtado Ivana - World U 8 girls-gold-2 times, U10-silver

Padmini Rout wins bronze at world junior 2010

2010-08-17T12:21:00.001-04:00

Padmini Rout has a won bronze medal in world junior championship 2010

Sasikiran 1st in Hogeschool Zeeland

2010-08-15T07:57:00.001-04:00

Sasikiran finished on first position in Hogeschool Zeeland international chess tournament 2010

Abhijit Gupta shares kavla open title

2010-08-10T13:40:00.000-04:00

Abhijit Gupta shared first place in kavla international chess open 2010

Parimarjan Negi wins Arjun Award 2010

2010-07-31T01:12:00.001-04:00

Parimarjan Negi has been given arjuna award 2010

Commonwealth chess championship 2010

2010-05-18T13:50:00.000-04:00

R R Laxman has won a gold medal in commonwealth chess championship 2010 and finished second overall in open chess championship. Many norms were made by Indian players.

Anand retains World Championship title!!!!

2010-05-11T12:41:00.002-04:00

Anand retained his World championship title in a 12 round match with challenger Topalov (world no 1 ranked player). He defeated Topalov by 6.5 to 5.5.
Fantastic, superb match.
Congratulations Anand!!!!
He is Bharat Ratna....(doesn't need official title)

Asian chess championship 2010

2010-04-29T12:42:00.002-04:00

Abhijit Gupta has won bronze medal in a very strong asian chess championship 2010

World Championship Match- Anand-Topalov 2010

2010-04-28T13:40:00.000-04:00

World Championship match is being played between current world champion Anand and challenger Topalov. After 4 rounds Anand is leading 2.5 to 1.5 in this 12 round match.

Top rated chess players of India - pics

2010-04-01T16:14:00.000-04:00

GM's Anand, Harikrishna, Sasikiran, Humpy, Ganguly, Chanda and Negi

Summary of Anand's Major Achievements

2010-04-01T11:54:00.002-04:00

In case anybody interested, here is the summary of Anand's major achievements...
Botvinnik memorial rapid-2011-1st
Match format World Champion- 2010 (defeated Topalov)
Match format World Champion- 2008 (defeated Kramnik)
Tournament format World Champion-2007
Knock out format World Champion- 2000
World rapid chess champion-2003
World number 1 rank - April 2007- Oct 2008
Chess Oscar- 5 times winner
World chess championship 2005- 2nd
Wijk Ann Zee Corus classic- 5 times winner
Linares Super GM classic- 3 times winner
Mainz chess classic- 11 times champion
Corsica masters rapid- 5 times champion
Dortmund classic-2 times winner
Melody Amber rapid- 5 times winner
World cup- 2 times champion
Eurotel 2002- champion
Leon chess rapid- 7 times winner
Reggio Emilia Super GM- winner 1991
Siemens-Frankfurt chess - 2 times winner
Tal Memorial Blitz - 1st
PCA world chess championship- challenger 1995
Padma Vibhshan-2008, Padma Bhushan - 2000, Padma Shri- 1987, Arjun award
Soviet Land Nehru award -1987
Rajiv Gandhi Khel-Ratna award- 1991- 1st recipient
Jameo De Oro- Spains highest civilian award
Book of the year award-BCF- 1998
Sportstar - Sportman of the Millinnium award

and champion of many other tournaments.........

Cannes chess festival 2010

2010-03-08T01:03:00.003-05:00

Deepsen Gupta has earned his final GM norm at the canees chess festival by tieing for first position. Arghyadip das has also earned a GM norm in this event

Reykjavic 2010

2010-03-03T20:46:00.002-05:00

Abhijit Gupta finished on tied 1st position at Reykjavic open chess tournament 2010
Harika obtained a GM norm in this tournament

Gibtelecom 2010

2010-02-06T00:58:00.001-05:00

In Gibtelecom chess festival, Sandipan Chanda and Gopal finished on tied first position in GM chess tournament 2010

Chennai Open GM Chess 2010

2010-02-01T04:36:00.003-05:00

In ongoing Chennnai open 2010, few Indian players ( Anwesh Upadhyay, Shyam Nikhil, Swayam Mishra, Vaibhav Suri, Fenil Shah, Ankit Rajpara) have already earned IM norm after 9 rounds.
R Siddharth and MR Lalith Babu have achieved a GM norm.

World Team Championship 2010

2010-01-10T08:28:00.008-05:00

Indian team has won a bronze in this championship, with individual gold medal for Ganguli on third board. and bronze for arun prasad on fifth board. India has participated in the world team championship for the first time due to absence of china.
Indian team (Sasi, Hari, Surya, Gopal, Arun, Adhiban) has performed exceptionally well in this 9 round competition. Indian team has defeated heavyweight like Azerbaijan and drew the match with Armenia.

Asian Team Chess Tournament 2009

2009-12-28T07:36:00.001-05:00

Indian Men's A and Women's A teams have won the silver medals in asian team chess championship 2009.

National premier chess championship 2009

2009-12-07T00:00:00.003-05:00

Adhiban has won national premier championship 2009, while Harika has won the womens tournament. In the meanwhile, Sriram Jha completed his 3rd GM norm to become a GM. Adhiban also obtained his 1st GM norm. Swapnil Dhopade obtained a IM norm.

Czech coal chess match 2009

2009-12-06T23:58:00.002-05:00

Czech chess coal match 2009 was played between team of young chess women vs team of old chess champions. Humpy participated in this and came up with a fine performance to help young women team beat old hands

World cup chess 2009

2009-11-23T08:18:00.003-05:00

Sasikiran, Ganguli and Chanda have advanced to the second round but crashed out in this round of world cup chess 2009

WYCC-09, Sethuraman wins Gold

2009-11-22T23:39:00.002-05:00

SP Sethuraman has won under 16 world youth chess 2009 gold, while Vidit Gujrathi has won silver in the same category.
Sai krishna and Saranya have won under 14 bronze medals
Murali karatikeyan and Ivana furtado have won under 10 silver medals
Congratulations to all....

Anand finishes 2nd in world blitz chess championship 09

2009-11-18T10:50:00.003-05:00

Anand has finished on second position in 42 round world blitz chess championship 09.
This is still creditable considering he is almost 40 yrs old now.

Abhijit Gupta finished tied 1st in Bad Wiessee 09

2009-11-10T05:09:00.001-05:00

Abhijit Gupta finished on tied first position in bavaria open chess tournament 2009 played at bad wiessee

Sasikiran and Harika win bronze in asian meet

2009-11-04T23:55:00.001-05:00

Sasikiran and Harika have won individual bronze medals in asian indoor rapid chess tournament 2009.

Saumya wins World Junior Championship 2009!!!!

2009-11-03T23:58:00.002-05:00

Saumya Swaminathan has won world junior chess championship 2009.
She has shown real courage in winning final round (which was required to win championship) which very few Indian sportpersons show. Congratulations!!!!!

World youth chess olympiad 2009- India wins silver

2009-10-03T04:04:00.002-04:00

Indian team has won a silver medal in world youth chess olympiad.
Debashish das won gold medal on second board and Deep Reddy has won silver on reserve board

Sasikiran second in inventi chess 2009

2009-09-27T10:16:00.000-04:00

Sasikiran finished on second position in Inventi GM chess tournament 2009

Esha Karawade wins silver at world team championship 2009

2009-09-12T02:15:00.002-04:00

Esha Karawade has won a silver medal on third board in world women team championship 2009.
However overall it was a bad performance for team India which finished on 7th position.

Kolkata open 2009- Norms galore

2009-09-09T00:41:00.010-04:00

In Kolkata open GM chess tournament 2009, many Indians have earned norms.
GM norm- Satyapragyan, RR Laxman, Sahaj Grover

IM norm- Nisha Mohota, Sayantan das, Vidit Gujrathi, Abhishek Das, Shyam Nikhil, Shiven Khosla, Ankit Rajpara, Anwesh Upadhyay, Shivananda,

RR Laxman became country's 20th GM

Barua wins United insurance GM open 2009

2009-08-30T13:51:00.001-04:00

Barua has won United Insurance and United leasing GM chess tournament 2009

Parimarjan Negi wins Arthur Tan Malaysian open 2009

2009-08-29T03:35:00.000-04:00

Parimarjan Negi has won the strong Arthur Tan Malaysian open chess tournament 2009

Adhiban wins National B 2009

2009-08-24T07:42:00.002-04:00

Adhiban has won recently conducted National B championship

Krutika Nadig and Sriram Zha have won subcontinent chess champ 2009

2009-08-15T13:58:00.002-04:00

Krutika Nadig and Sriram Zha have won asian zone 3.2 i.e subcontinent chess championship 2009 for women and men's section respectively

Chanda and Abhijeet finishes at top in kavala open 2009

2009-08-10T05:45:00.002-04:00

Sandipan Chanda and Abhijeet Gupta finished at creditable 2nd and third position at kavala international open tournament 2009
P Magesh Chandran finished on 3rd position in Badalona open, Spain

Tania Sachdev wins Arjuna award 2009

2009-07-30T02:28:00.003-04:00

Tania Sachdev have been given this years arjuna award for her achievements in chess.
This is ok, however when Abhijeet Kunte is going to get it?Doesn't he deserve it?

Negi wins Politiken cup 2009

2009-07-27T04:28:00.001-04:00

GM Parimarjan Negi has convincingly won the prestigious politiken cup 2009

Arun Prasad wins scottish chess open 2009

2009-07-21T03:15:00.001-04:00

Arun Prasad has won the scottish chess open tournament 2009

MR Lalith Babu wins leiden open 2009

2009-07-21T03:13:00.001-04:00

MR Lalith Babu has won the leiden open chess tournament 2009 played in Netherland

Magesh P wins Montcada open 2009

2009-07-06T07:12:00.002-04:00

Magesh Panchnathan has won the Montcada international chess open 2009 tournament, spain.

GM Ganguly is new asian chess champion 2009

2009-05-23T23:40:00.001-04:00

GM Ganguly has won the asian chess championship 2009. Congrats to him.
Sandipan chanda and Sasikiran also qualified for world cup

Humpy 2nd in Mayor's cup international 2009

2009-05-10T23:47:00.001-04:00

Humpy finished on 2nd position (tied with 1st) in Mumbai Mayor's cup international GM tournament 2009.

Deep Sengupta wins canberra open

2009-04-14T23:49:00.000-04:00

Deep Sengupta has won canberra open chess tournament 2009 and obtained GM norm.

Anand second in Amber rapid/blindfold 2009

2009-03-27T04:22:00.001-04:00

Anand finished on second position overall in Amber rapid/blinfold chess tournament 2009.

Humpy wins Womens Grand Prix 2009

2009-03-20T01:58:00.002-04:00

Humpy has won womens grand prix tournament 2009 played in turkey. She achieved clear first position with lots of strong GM's present.

Harikrishna wins Nancy international

2009-03-01T04:23:00.001-05:00

GM Harikrishna has convincingly won the Nancy international round robin tournament 2009

Gurgaon international open 2008

2009-01-29T12:38:00.003-05:00

In Gurgaon international chess open tourny 2008, RR Laxman and GM Neelotpal Das have tied for 1st position with 3 others, RR Laxman and PDS girinath have made GM norm, while Shivananda and sarvana krishna have made IM norms

Parsvanath chess open 2009

2009-01-19T12:27:00.004-05:00

GM Ganguli has won Parsvanath chess open 2009. Karthikeyan, Sethuraman and Prathamesh Mokal have earned GM norm, while Shashikant kutwal, A mukharjee and P Roy have earned IM norm.

Gopal performs well in europe

2009-01-08T10:49:00.001-05:00

Gopal finished on second position in Gjovic chess festival

Sasikiran wins Pamplona

2009-01-04T11:26:00.001-05:00

Sasikiran has comfortably won the Pamplona international round robin tournament 2008

Indian National A chess 2008

2008-12-27T11:54:00.004-05:00

Indian National A chess tournament was played for both men's and women's section.
Krutika has already won the women's section and she is new national champion while Ganguly has won the men's section for record sixth time. Krutika has obtained WGM norm while Bhakti, Amruta and P.N Kritika have obtained WIM norms

Dresden Chess Olympiad 2008

2008-11-16T10:58:00.003-05:00

Indian men and women teams have lost some key matches and finished poorly i .e outside top 10.
I think Mary Gomes won a silver medal playing on board 5 which is the only consolation

Indians win many medals at world youth 2008

2008-11-02T02:24:00.002-05:00

Indians have won many gold,silver and bronze medals at world youth championship 2008.
Sanyantan das, vidit gujrathi, padmini raut and adhiban have won gold medals.

Anand-Kramnik World championship match 2008

2008-10-26T13:16:00.004-04:00

Anand has won the world championship match by 6.5-4.5 margin.
By this win, Anand has become THE UNDISPUTED WORLD CHAMPION in the history of chess.
Anand has won classic match format, classic tournament format, classic knockout format and rapid format world championships and he is the only one to do that. Congratulation, Anand...greatest achievement!!!!!
Golden grand slam of chess!!!!!

Humpy's club wins European club chess champ

2008-10-25T22:21:00.003-04:00

GM Humpy won European club chess championship while playing for club monte carlo.
Harikrishna's club finished on second position in men's group.

Indians win silver in world mind games

2008-10-20T22:27:00.000-04:00

Indian pair of Sasikiran and Tanya Sachdev won silver medal in world mind games mix rapid tournament

Ganguli second in commonwealth champ 2008

2008-10-07T05:20:00.001-04:00

GM SS Ganguli finished on second position behind GM Short in Commomwealth Championship 2008 played in Nagpur.

Harikrishna wins Spice cup, USA

2008-10-01T03:31:00.001-04:00

Harikrishna has won prestigious Spice cup memorial GM tournament played in Texas, USA.

Humpy loses in semifinal of WWCC again!!

2008-09-15T01:58:00.003-04:00

Koneru Humpy again lost in semifinal of world womens chess championship, this time to chinese Hou. I think its time she should employ services of foregin super GM's for such a big tournament.

India wins world under 16 youth olympiad 2008

2008-08-25T06:30:00.002-04:00

Indian team of Adhiban, Sethuraman, Shyam sundar, Prasanna and Priyadarshan have won under world youth olympiad 2008.

Abhijit Gupta and Harika wins World Jr

2008-08-16T10:14:00.003-04:00

Abhijit Gupta has won World Jr chess tournament 2008. Harika has won ladies section of this tournament. India is the first country to achieve this feat.
Parimarjan Negi won the silver.

Sasikiran won Najdorf Memorial

2008-08-16T10:11:00.002-04:00

GM Sasikiran has won Najdorf memorial round robin chess tournament 2008
Meanwhile Kidambi won Badalona chess tournament 2008 and also obtained GM norm with Konguwel.

Anand wins Mainz 2008

2008-08-04T07:49:00.001-04:00

Anand has won Mainz rapid tournament 11th time by defeating carlsson in the final.
Meanwhile Humpy disappointed in North ural cup and finished on 4th position.

Arun Prasad becomes GM

2008-07-07T11:28:00.002-04:00

Arun prasad has achieved 2500 rating level and already has 3 GM norms which has helped him become India's 18th GM

Meanwhile Kritika Nadig has scored a IM norm from sort open ches tourny 2008 and Srinath has won a IM tournament in Czech Republic 2008 and has earned 2nd IM norm.

Parimarjan Negi won Philadelphia international

2008-07-07T11:21:00.003-04:00

Parimarjan Negi has won Philadelphia international open chess tourny 2008 by clear first position. HE also tied for creditable 1st position in world open chess tourny 2008.

Sahaj Grover earned final IM norm

2008-06-23T15:48:00.001-04:00

Sahaj Grover has earned his final IM norm in the Balaton IM round robin tournament 2008.

Esha Wins National Women's B 2008

2008-06-16T17:30:00.001-04:00

WGM Esha Karawade has won recently concluded Women's National B tournament 2008.

Mayor's cup Mumbai international

2008-05-17T18:03:00.004-04:00

In Mayors cup Mumbai international chess tourny, after 11 rounds, Humpy finished with creditable 2nd position on tiebreak with GM Krasenkow. Thejkumar earned a GM norm while B.T. Murali Krishnan and Ram S. Krishnan have already made IM norms.

Negi finishes 1st tied in kaupthing open

2008-05-17T18:00:00.001-04:00

Parimarjan Negi finished with creditable tied 1st position in Kaupthing open international chess tournament 2008.

Anand wins 5th Oscar!!!

2008-05-09T14:12:00.001-04:00

Anand has won the prestigious chess oscar for the year 2007. This is his record 5th chess oscar.
Congratulations!!!!

Gausdal Classic 2008

2008-04-16T13:22:00.002-04:00

In Gausdal classic round robin chess tournament GM Gopal finished on impressive 2nd position.

Dubai open 2008

2008-04-14T17:22:00.001-04:00

Dubai open chess tournament just concluded. Abhijeet Gupta impressed with finishing on joint 2nd position, RR Laxman has most probably obtained a GM norm.

Ruy Lopez chess festival 2008

2008-04-11T16:53:00.002-04:00

GM Humpy finished creditable 4th (with 2700+performance) in Ruy Lopez round robin chess festival 2008 played in Merida

Kolkata open chess 2008

2008-04-01T10:52:00.002-04:00

In Kolkata open chess tournament 2008, Sasikiran finished for tied 1st position. Arun Prasad has earned a GM norm, while A. Das, Swapnil Dhopade and Thejkumar earned IM norm. Nimmy George earned WIM norm .

GM Ganguli has won Sydney International 2008

2008-03-30T10:15:00.000-04:00

GM Ganguli has won Sydney international chess tournament 2008

Melody amber 2008

2008-03-17T13:08:00.003-04:00

Melody Amber chess tournament just ended and although its a rapid and blindfold event, surprisingly Anand did not perform well . He finished with 7th position combined event ranking.

Reykjavic open 2008- Sahaj Grover earns IM norm

2008-03-11T22:27:00.002-04:00

Sahaj Grover most probably earned an IM norm in the Reykjavic open tournament played in Iceland.

Anand has won Morelia-Linares super GM 2008

2008-02-24T13:18:00.004-05:00

Anand has won Morelia-Linares Super GM chess tournament 2008. After the first part ended in Mexico, next 7 rounds were played in Linares. Congratulations to the deserving winner.

National A chess 2008 and Moscow open

2008-02-10T17:39:00.001-05:00

GM Suryashekhar Ganguli has won the National chess A championship 2008. He won this championship 5th time. Ratnakaran finished on 2nd position and Arun Prasad, Gopal and MR Venkatesh tied for 3rd.
Thejkumar earned his 2nd GM norm and Vidit Gujrathi has earned IM norm.

Harika finished on 4th position in Group C ladies chess championship of Moscow open 2008.

Gopal ties for second position in Gibtelecom chess

2008-01-31T12:12:00.000-05:00

Gopal performed at very high level and finished with second position at Gibtelecom masters international chess tournament 2008 played at Gibralter.

Corus 2008 - Anand finshes 3rd

2008-01-25T19:13:00.000-05:00

Corus 2008 super GM tournament is just over. Anand finished 3rd behind Aronian and Carlsson, Harikrishna finished 4th and humpy 11th in group B while Negi finished impressive 3rd in group C.

Anand awarded Padma Vibhushan

2008-01-25T09:23:00.000-05:00

Anand has been awarded Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award.
Congratulations to Anand, he totally deserved it.

Parsvanath international chess 2008

2008-01-19T00:21:00.000-05:00

Abhijeet Gupta has won Parsvanath international chess tournament 2008 convincingly which is being played in Delhi. GB Prakash earned GM norm; Pravin kumar, AV Rajesh, Arjun Tiwari, and Debashish das earned IM norm.

Indian teams win silver in asian team championship

2008-01-09T12:05:00.001-05:00

Indian Mens (sasikiran, ganguli, kunte, gopal, gupta) and womens teams (harika, tanya, nisha, arti) have won silver medals in asian team championship 2008.

Harikrishna finishes 4th in Reggio Emilia 2008

2008-01-08T22:12:00.000-05:00

GM Harikrishna finished 4th in Reggio Emilia round robin chess tournament. He performed better and gained some rating points.

Harikrishna loses in final of Torre Memorial 2007

2007-12-23T19:57:00.000-05:00

Harikrishna lost to Ivanchuk by tie breaker in the final match of Torre Memorial knock out tournament 2007 played in Mexico . Hari defeated 3 grand masters in 2 game matches before entering the final.

Karthikeyan and Mary Ann Gomes win asian junior 2007

2007-12-21T09:47:00.000-05:00

Karthikeyan and Mary Gomes have won asian junior championship 2007. By virtue of this, Karthikeyan will become IM and Mary Gomes has obtained her final WGM norm to become WGM.

Ramesh wins Commonwealth chess championship 2007

2007-12-09T21:37:00.000-05:00

GM R B Ramesh has won Commonwealth chess championship 2007 played in Delhi. Many indian players earned norms, Abhijit Gupta completed rating requirements for GM title, Thejkumar earned GM norm, Sahaj Grover,karthikeyan, Sasikant kutwal and Nisha Motota earned IM norm.
Amruta mokal, kirthika and preeti have earned WIM norm.

world youth chess 2007 - Ivana wins under 8 gold

2007-11-28T23:15:00.000-05:00

Ivana Furtado has won gold medal again in world under 8 girl category of world youth chess 2007.
Prince bajaj has won boys under 10 bronze and shalmali gagare has won girls under 14 bronze.

World cup chess 2007

2007-11-26T15:27:00.000-05:00

All indians except sasikiran lost in 1st round itself in the World cup chess 2007. GM's Kunte, Hari, Ganguli and Gopal lost in the first round. Sasikiran kept on winning and finally lost to pono in round 4.

Anand finishes 2nd in World Blitz Championship 2007

2007-11-22T10:43:00.000-05:00

Anand finished 2nd after Ivanchuk in World blitz championship 2007.

Gopal officially becomes 16th GM of India

2007-11-19T17:40:00.000-05:00

Fide confirmed Gopal as 16th GM of India. Congratulations to Gopal.

Tania wins Women's National A chess 2007

2007-11-13T10:15:00.000-05:00

Tania, Soumya and Kiran tied for the first position in this 11 round Womens national A chess tornament being played at Pune. Tania won on tie breaker, her second consecutive national championship. Soumya Swaminathan has earned 2nd WGM norm, Kiran Mohanty earned first WGM norm and P. Priya and Sai meera have earned their final WIM norm