Those students who weren’t ready for a chess tournament were provided opportunities to hone their skills. “Students are engaged in so many really unique activities around here,” Buchanan said.

The tournament, which attracted chess players from Lesotho, Zambia and Zimbabwe was held over the Easter holidays from April 18-20. Kabaso Bwalya from Zambia walked away with a whooping cash prize ...

At the recently held All-India inter-university chess tournament, Madras University won the women’s segment. Five girls from MOP Vaishnav were part of the winning team. “Winning this ...

Nagpur: Sai Sharma brought laurels to the city by winning a silver medal in the Bengaluru Grandmasters Open Chess tournament. In the below 1800 C-category Open tournament, the 17-year-old Sai gave ...

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The second Drumlish FIDE Rapid Chess Tournament took place at the Drumlish Community Centre, attracting 72 players from across the country. FIDE is The International Chess Federation. The event, ...

With this win, Humpy’s qualification chances to the next Women’s Candidates Chess tournament has greatly increased. Moreover, India’s International Master Divya Deshmukh played a draw against Polish ...

The first World Chess Olympiad in Azerbaijan was arranged at the Baku Crystal Hall, a multipurpose sports and concert arena. The chess tournament gathered about 2,000 chess masters from 175 countries.

It even hosted lucrative tournaments in the occupied Ukrainian territories of Crimea and Donbas. To Moscow’s critics, world chess has become a soft power tool for the Kremlin to normalize and ...

Zhu Jiner, who was leadig for six rounds, was pushed out of contention by the Indians.