Chennai's Tal club inspired a whole generation of players, including Vishy Anand, who went on to become India’s chess pin-up ...

The southern Indian city of Chennai is known for its high achievers. In recent years, it has produced some of the world's most formidable chess players — and the youngest world champion.

World Champion D Gukesh shares his 2025 blueprint ahead of the Paris Freestyle Chess Grand Slam. Discover how he plans to conquer setbacks and master all formats.

Political commentators cite anti-incumbency and Chennai’s educated population for the BJP's growth, but is there another factor at play? The 2024 Lok Sabha elections saw a paradigm shift in ...

The exponential rise of Indian chess talents is a result of solid ‘structural support, good mentors and backing from the country’ which the United States of America lacks and it’ll lead their chess ...

Chennai: The Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC), Chennai, has issued an orange alert for four districts in south Tamil Nadu on Tuesday (March 11, 2025), predicting heavy to very heavy rainfall. But, ...

M.K.Stalin, Tamil Nadu CM with Nadir Godrej, Chairperson, Godrej Industries Group at the launch of Godrej’s integrated manufacturing facility at Chengalpattu, near Chennai. | Photo Credit ...

Aravindh has played quite a few games of freestyle chess, which some consider the future. The reigning Chennai GM tournament winner, however, said both classical and freestyle chess will coexist.

The project includes six major land routes and the Maritime Silk Road. The first of these, the “New Eurasian Land Bridge” (NELB), forms a railway network beginning in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur ...

They did it with baking. They did it with sewing. They did it with pottery. Can they do it with chess? By adding enough double entendres, excitable co-presenters and ludicrously overstated stakes ...

They return home and the kid asks his father for a chess set. He can’t find the fancy chess board and buys a normal one instead. The kid is hooked to the game. The six-year-old ...

ONE of the most celebrated pieces of long-form journalism in the past century — whose masterful writing remains appreciated to this day — paid homage to a routine act of modern society: the ...