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World Chess Championship: Bounce-back win puts Gukesh in select company

D Gukesh joined the select company of Vishy Anand, Magnus Carlsen and Ding Liren when he equalised in the undisputed World Championship match on Wednesday, after suffering a defeat in the first decisive game of the Matchplay series. Before Gukesh, only these three had levelled the score 1-1 in the…

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World Chess Championship: Gukesh holds with black; Ding leads 14-game match 1.5-0.5

D Gukesh is not back on track in the World Chess Championship match yet, but he has regrouped himself. And that was good enough to pass as satisfactory as he drew the second game with black pieces against Ding Liren in Singapore on Tuesday.

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World Chess Championship: Human Ding Liren must unsettle brilliantly-wired D Gukesh to retain World chess crown

Man vs Machine has always been a common theme in competitive sport, when human and intuitive play is up against precise and programmed cold bloodedness.

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From Bobby Fischer to Magnus Carlsen: 22 of the most famous world chess championship games

The 138-year history of the world chess championship is filled with games of rare precision, imagination and brilliance. Go move by move through 22 of them below

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World Chess Championship 2024: Ding Liren v Gukesh Dommaraju pre-match questions, answered

Not sure when the world chess championship starts, who’s tipped to win, and why Magnus Carlsen isn’t playing? We (mostly) have the answers

The Guardian - US

World Chess Championship final 2024: Schedule, format, prize money, players

All the details about the biggest two weeks in chess as a young Indian grandmaster takes on the Chinese world champion.

Al Jazeera

Champion Ding and challenger Gukesh prepare for world title battle

China’s world champion Ding Liren, 32, will face his Indian rival Gukesh Dommaraju, 18, on Monday.

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Chess men or destiny's children? How quirk of fate played a role in setting up Ding vs Gukesh world chess battle

'It's not just luck but what you make out of luck that matters more,' goes the famous adage. While that holds true for both the finalists of the World Chess Championship Match — champion Ding Liren and challenger D Gukesh — the Indian's story is even more fascinating.

The Times of India

World Chess Championship: Has charm of dethroning a world champion reduced?

Gukesh deserving challenger despite Carlsen's absence Ding's problems

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Magnus Carlsen achieves a 'double'

KOLKATA: The City of Joy is turning out to be a happy hunting ground for Magnus Carlsen.

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India Open Chess: Magnus Carlsen leads despite going down to Arjun Erigaisi

KOLKATA: World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen suffered his first defeat in the Tata Steel India Open Rapid and Blitz tournament here on Saturday, but that could not deny him from finishing on top of the points table after Day One of the blitz meet.

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Dominant Magnus Carlsen reigns supreme at India Open

KOLKATA: Magnus Carlsen perhaps doesn’t like a close finish. Many expected a thrilling end to the open category of the rapid section of Tata Steel India Open Rapid and Blitz meet on Friday with Uzbekistan Nodirbek Abdusattorov breathing down Carlsen’s neck with just half-a-point difference between the two.

The Times of India

UK Blitz chess final pits grandmasters against a golden generation

Juniors make up nearly half the field, including a nine-year-old top seed, while in Kolkata Magnus Carlsen surged to victory in the Tata Steel Rapid

The Guardian - UK

Magnus Carlsen takes sole lead in Tata Steel India Chess tournament

NEW DELHI: World's top-ranked player Magnus Carlsen delivered an outstanding display, winning against S L Narayanan, Wesley So and Arjun Erigaisi, to claim the sole leadership position at the Tata Steel Chess India Rapid tournament in Kolkata on Thursday.

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Magnus Carlsen meets 3-year-old chess prodigy Anish Sarkar: 'Amazing to see his level'

Three-year-old chess player Anish Sarkar met chess star Magnus Carlsen on November 12th in Kolkata. Carlsen was impressed with Sarkar, who recently became the youngest-ever rated chess player.

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Abdusattorov Nodirbek leads, Magnus Carlsen close behind in India Open chess

KOLKATA: Uzbekistan’s youngster Abdusattorov Nodirbek emerged the sole leader on Day I of Tata Steel India Open Rapid and Blitz meet at the end of first three rounds of the rapid competition here on Wednesday.

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Kolkata's Anish Sarkar becomes youngest rated chess prodigy at 3 years

KOLKATA: While most children of his age are absorbed in cartoons like Peppa Pig or Chhota Bheem, or simply playing with toys, young Anish Sarkar found his fascination in the quiet strategy of chess pieces, sparking a journey few could fathom.

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Chess: Garry Kasparov still has it at 61 as he holds his own against the US elite

The former world champion scored 4.5/9 in the 9LX tournament and also revealed new details about his 1997 match with the IBM Deep Blue supercomputer

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The Independent UK

After 20 years at the top of chess, Magnus Carlsen is making his next move

Few chess players have produced the magic commodity which separates Norway’s Magnus Carlsen from any of his peers: celebrity

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Chess: Fabiano Caruana, world No 2, wins fourth US Championship title

Caruana showed his clear superiority in the open event at St Louis, while Carissa Yip won her first eight games in the women’s championship

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What’s brown, shiny and boasts a sexy sheen of scandal? Welcome to the world of conkers

Sports fans love the drama of cheating accusations but perhaps event organisers love the resulting media attention even more

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Ding will come to the match with right spirit: Gukesh

PUNE: D Gukesh, 18, talks fondly about witnessing the World Chess Championship match between V Anand and Magnus Carlsen in his hometown of Chennai in 2013.

The Guardian - UK

Carlsen struggles amid controversy at $1m Global Chess League in London

The world No 1 lost to Firouzja in round two and although he won the return game, his team failed to reach the final, in which Triveni Continental Kings face PBG Alaskan Knights

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Anish downs Anand, Nihal wins again as Knights inch closer to Global Chess League title

NAGPUR: Anish Giri, Hikaru Nakamura, and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave spearheaded the PBG Alaskan Knights, American Gambits and Mumba Masters to resounding victories as the black pieces prevailed in the seventh round of the Global Chess League in London on Tuesday.

The Times of India

Carlsen's Pipers hand Knights first defeat, Anand's Ganges get second win in Global Chess League

NAGPUR: A day after PBG Alaskan Knights vanquished Alpine SG Pipers, the Magnus Carlsen-led outfit turned the tables on the sole leaders with a similar 9-7 margin in a rematch of the double round-robin Global Chess League in London on Monday.

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