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2025 FIDE World Schools Team Championship & Smart Moves Summit Have Come to a Thrilling End! The USA Team is Among the Winners!

NEW CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / August 7, 2025 / Young chess minds competed and collaborated at the 2025 FIDE World ...

Chess grandmaster wins first online competition at Esports World Cup

Number one grandmaster, Magnus Carlsen, has won the inaugural online chess competition at the Esports World Cup. The ...

Gold again! World Chess champion D Gukesh, World Junior champion Pranav V and now this — Velammal keeps minting talents

Velammal MHS School's chess team triumphed at the 2025 World Schools Team Championship, continuing India's chess dominance.

Viswanathan Anand explains how a ‘limited’ young Magnus Carlsen became chess’ unbeatable beast

Viswanathan Anand became the World Champion for the first time in 2000 when he defeated Spanish Grandmaster Alexei Shirov for the title.

'He had a bad classical event': Viswanathan Anand cites Gukesh's example as he urges chess players to master all formats

Viswanathan Anand has urged young chess players to master all formats, citing world champion D Gukesh’s example. Gukesh is ...

2025 World Schools Team Chess Championship: India’s Triumph, Freedom Holding Corp.’s Impact

The 2025 championship not only crowned India as champions but also celebrated the achievements of Kazakhstan, the USA, and ...

Praggnanandhaa looks to achieve the No. 1 chess ranking to add to India’s dominance

India has become a major power in international chess led by its highest-ranked player, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa.

Teenager Divya Deshmukh slays nerves and seeded players to reach first Chess World Cup final

In the third edition of the Women's World Cup, Divya, the 15th seed at this tournament, is now its youngest finalist - a year younger than Nurgyul Salimova was when she made the final of the previous ...