Georgia surrenders to India A team. With Armenia, the youngsters team recorded their first loss of the Olympiad. In the open, India A team managed to draw with Uzbekistan. Pentala Harikrishna beat Nodirbek Abdusattorov, who is the reigning world rapid chess champion. It happened to be...
After a testing Round 5 of Chess Olympiad 2022 yesterday, Indian teams must be aware of their main contenders in this Olympiad. As Georgia defeated one more Indian women’s team yesterday at 3 - 1, with Soumya and Divya losing and Vantika and Padmini drawing their games, the challenge is now...
Indian teams go through a test of strength, as the 2022 Chess Olympiad progresses to Round 4 of Chess Olympiad 2022 and Indian grandmasters face more draws. Indian teams recorded their first losses against Spain rated at 2700 in the open and Georgia rated at 2400 in the women’s category....
Magnus Carlsen said he feared Team B of India that included Praggnanandha and his fears have been well founded, so far. Pentala Harikrishnan stole the show, with his tactical win against Dimitri Mastrovasilis, in the Round 3 of the Chess Olympiad, yesterday. Dimitri’s king side castling was...
On Day 2 of Chess Olympiad, the Swiss format seemed to kick in with the Indian team facing tougher opponents which showed in how R Vaishali won after a long, exhausting game against Maria Campos Jose of Argentina. Since the number of teams is large, the Swiss format has been chosen. In this,...
On Day 1, in a reflection of how the Indian women’s team is probably the strongest among the more than 180 teams competing in the Chess Olympiad, Koneru Humpy pulled back from a tough position by surprising the opponent, Nadezhda Antonova, from Tajikistan. Koneru Humpy, who is one of the...
Neeraj Chopra might have stolen the limelight with his history-scripting silver in javelin throw at the World Athletics Championship in Oregon last week but the event exposed India's doping in sports problem after Tamil Nadu trailblazer Dhanalakshmi Sekar tested positive for banned steroids....
Cricketer Dinesh Karthik has made a dazzling comeback after being written-off as a serious contender in international cricket. On the verge of being a had-been, Dinesh soldiered on, playing in Madurai local cricket, and taking a shot at commentating. But then he has come back in style not...
R Sai Kishore, a familiar name in Tamil Nadu and Indian domestic circuit, has just lifted the IPL 2022 title with Gujarat Titans. A proper underrated player in an underrated team. In the four games he played this season, he took six wickets with a good economy rate in the middle overs. Here's...
Mahendra Singh Dhoni returned as captain for CSK's game against SRH and took us on a nostalgia trip with his insights about the game, his future, leadership and that enigmatic smile after the win. Before the game had even started the talk was about the return of MSD's Midas touch or his...
