Author Vivek Sohani

All three Indian Teams won their Matches in the third round of the 44th Chess Olympiad being played at Mamallapuram, Chennai. India A beat Greece with a 3-1 score, India B trounced Switzerland 4-0, and Team C defeated Iceland with a 3-1 score. Harikrishna and Arjun Erigaisi brought home the full point while Vidit Gujrathi and Krishnan Saikiran were held to draws. […]

The USA was paired in the third round against 24th ranked Georgia, not opposition in the same league, but still one of the outsider countries for medals and the disparity between the teams were reflected in the final 3-1 victory. Georgia would have been encouraged by the start they must have hoped for when on […]

All the three Indian Teams ending on the winning side with Team A defeating Moldova with 3.5-0.5, Team B trouncing Estonia with a 4-0 score Team C edging out Mexico with a 2.5-1.5 score. Team A rested their top player Vidit Gujrathi for this encounter and Harikrishna who rested yesterday, started with a win. Sasikiran […]

Favourites fumbled in the second round of the Women’s section of the Chess Olympiad, with former Women World Champion Mariya Muzychuk of Ukraine crashing to defeat against Ekaterina Atalik and India’s Koneru Humpy forced to split point against much lower rated Marisa Zuriel of Argentina. All the three Indian Women’s Teams won their matches but […]

Five-times World Champion and Indian chess legend Viswanathan Anand addresses hundreds of Indian kids in the side-event – IM Michael Rahal, FIDE Press Officer, Chennai The second round of the Olympiad featured the debut of World Champion Magnus Carlsen, playing on board one for Norway. One minute before the start of the round, all players were […]

The top-seeded USA won against a fighting Paraguay team 2.5-1.5, the slimmest of margins, thanks to a quick and very convincing win by Leinier Dominguez with the white pieces over Jose Fernando Cubas. It was not as easy going for Fabiano Caruana, who could not find a way past Axel Bachman on the top board, and Wesley So, playing on Board two […]

In the absence of arch-rivals Russia and China, only the Indian team, playing on home turf, seem capable of depriving the USA of the gold medal. Five-times World Champion and Indian chess superstar Vishy Anand opened the first round of the 44th Chess Olympiad at 3pm sharp this afternoon, in the main hall of the […]

Led by Koneru Humpy on the top board, the top-seeded Indian women’s team asserted their supremacy on the lower-ranked Tajikistan in the first round of the 44th Chess Olympiad that finally got underway on the Chess Board after a glittering opening ceremony on Thursday. In what turned out to be a short hassle due to […]

The first round of the 44th Chess Olympiad at Mamallapuram, Chennai was inaugurated by Shri Anurag Thakur, Honourable Union Minister for I&B, Youth Affairs and Sports by making the first move on Vidit Gujrathi’s board, Five time World Champion Viswanathan Anand and Arkady Dvorkovich, President of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) President, AICF President Dr Sanjay Kapoor, and Olympiad Director Bharat […]

FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich and Managing Director Dana Reizniece Ozola opened the Queen’s and Social Pavilions on the first day of the 44th Chess Olympiad. Sonja Johnson, Chairperson of the Planning and Development Commission, welcomed Dana to the stage and Dana addressed the audience. “188 Men’s teams, 162 Women’s teams are participating, it seems like […]

App to drive hyper-personalised data-driven fan experiences by leveraging cutting-edge technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented Reality (AR)/ Virtual Reality (VR), among others The International Chess Federation(FIDE) and the All-India Chess Federation have strengthened their partnership with Tech Mahindra, a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting, and business re-engineering services and solutions, to launch FIDE’s […]