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5 Fascinating Facts About Indian Chess Grandmaster Gukesh Dommaraju

5 Fascinating Facts About Indian Chess Grandmaster Gukesh Dommaraju

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Interesting facts about Gukesh Dommaraju: Gukesh Dommaraju will play in the World Chess Championship against Ding Liren in Singapore seeking to make history. Hailing from Chennai, Gukesh is one of India’s top players from the current generation. Here are five facts about Gukesh: Gukesh’s early start Gukesh learned chess at the Velammal School in Chennai at the age of seven. But he has not attended school after Standard 4. Gukesh was in Standard 1 when his potential was noticed by his first chess coach Bhaskar V, during the extracurricular activities (ECA) period. Even at that age, Gukesh was obsessive about chess. Bhaskar introduced Gukesh to his second coach, Vijayanand, at whose academy Bhaskar was a coach. At the Vijayanand Chess Academy, Gukesh would start early, around 9.30 am. Those early days, Gukesh would be given 70 chess puzzles a day to solve. It was to help him with tactical and positional awareness on the board. After that, he would take lessons on chess theory and middle-game strategy. Classes would go on till 7.30 pm. Gukesh …

Shreyas Royal interview: ‘Written in stars’ Indian-origin prodigy on finally becoming UK’s youngest-ever GM at 15 | Chess News

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Shreyas Royal was about eight when he first seriously thought that he could be a grandmaster. That dream came true after the Indian-origin British player achieved his third and final grandmaster norm at the British Chess Championship in August after five narrow misses over various tournaments in the past year. The 15-year-old thus becomes the UK’s youngest-ever grandmaster beating the previously-held record of GM David Howell. Born in Bengaluru, Shreyas’ family moved to the UK when he was just a kid. Over the past few years, Shreyas, along with another Indian-origin prodigy Bodhana Sivanandan, has become the face of British chess. “When I started playing chess, the first thing you hear about the sport is that there are titles like grandmasters. I thought to myself, I want to be a grandmaster one day. But I only started seriously thinking that I could become a GM when I was eight or nine after I had come joint first in the European age group chess championship,” Shreyas tells The Indian Express at the Friend’s House in London …

Anish Giri interview: Why chess feels simpler these days, added pressure of being 30 and how the sport is getting younger | Chess News

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Grandmaster Anish Giri will make his debut in the Global Chess League later this year as an icon player for the PBG Alaskan Knights. He spoke to The Indian Express about his role for the Knights, why he believes they are the favourites, how much chess has changed since he became the world’s youngest grandmaster in 2009, and the challenges of playing formidable 10-year-olds in online events. Excerpts: In the upcoming season of the Global Chess League, you will play for the PBG Alaskan Knights. What do you make of your chances? Anish Giri: We’ve been fortunate with the team. It’s a very strong group. On most of the boards we are favourites. Nodirbek Abdusattorov is a tremendous player. If anything, he deserves to be on the icon board at this point (rather than me). Our prodigy is absolutely top notch. Nihal Sarin is one of the most talented players, especially in speed chess, and this tournament is going to be a rapid tournament, so that will make a difference. Nihal is one of the …