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Tamil Or Telugu? MK Stalin, Chandrababu Naidu Lead Battle Over Chess Champ Gukesh's Heritage
Gukesh Dommaraju's historic World Chess Championship win - the 18-year-old is the world's youngest ever chess champ - has triggered a battle for credit between Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, with the chief ministers of each claiming him as their own.
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D Gukesh Is Youngest-Ever World Chess Champ, Some Others Who Held The Title
But 2023 was an eventful year for Gukesh when he unleashed himself to the world as the youngest player to reach a rating of 2750. The same year, he outperformed Viswanathan Anand as the top-ranked Indian chess player.
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China Chess Champ Defecates In Hotel Bathtub After Win, Stripped Of Title
The world of Chinese chess is in uproar over rumours of cheating and a bad behaviour scandal that saw the national champion stripped of his title Monday after a victory celebration ended with him defecating in a hotel bathtub.
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Chess Champ Hans Niemann Denies Using Vibrating Sex Toys To Beat Magnus Carlsen
The pair buried the chess hatchet and settled a $100 million lawsuit.
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"Not Runners-Up, But Run-Up To...": Anand Mahindra To R Praggnanandhaa
The entire nation has been in awe of the chess champ including industrialist Anand Mahindra.
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US Chess Champ Scanned Before Match Amid Sex Toy Cheating Claims
American chess grandmaster Hans Niemann underwent strict checking at the US Chess Championships in St Louis amid allegations that he cheated using a sex toy during his match with World Champion Magnus Carlsen.
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Former World Champ Boxer Klitschko, Chess Great Kasparov Speak Out On Russia-Ukraine Tension
The 45-year-old great, a former Olympic gold-medallist and someone who held the world heavyweight championship twice in the professional circuit, took to Twitter to send out a message of solidarity for his compatriots.
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The Queen's Gambit Deja-Vu For Hungary Chess Champ Judit Polgar
Like the 'The Queen's Gambit's' fictional heroine Beth, an orphaned chess prodigy, Judit Polgar tackled not just opponents across the board but gender stereotypes in the male-dominated sport.
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Meet This Chess Champ From Chandigarh. She's Only 4
Saanvi Aggarwal, 4, participated in the 32nd National U-7 Open Girls Chess Championship. She finished at second spot in Under-5 category and qualified for the Asian Youth U-6 Chess Championship, to be held in 2019.
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Mira Nair on Directing Lupita Nyong'o in Queen of Katwe
"We wrote the mother's part in Queen Of Katwe for Lupita because she became this meteoric star and more importantly she suited the part. We wrote the part as that of young Mother Courage, someone who had children from the age of 15," said Mira Nair
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Bill Gates takes on world chess champ, mated in 9 moves
Newly crowned Norwegian world chess champion Magnus Carlsen took just nine moves to checkmate Bill Gates in a speed game to be aired later on Friday.
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Vishwanathan Anand takes on 35 mathematicians today
Unfazed by the controversy surrounding his nationality, world champion Viswanathan Anand began his simultaneous chess game against 40 math wizards at the ongoing International Congress of Mathematicians on Tuesday.
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World champ Anand returns home
World chess champion Viswanathan Anand landed in Chennai on Thursday night to a grand reception despite the late hour.
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World champ again, Anand calls it a huge achievement
Anand defeated Russia's Vladimir Kramnik in a match-play series to retain his title in Bonn, Germany on Wednesday.
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Chess champ Bobby Fischer dies at 64
Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess genius became a Cold War icon when he dethroned the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky as world champion in 1972, has died.
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Tamil Or Telugu? MK Stalin, Chandrababu Naidu Lead Battle Over Chess Champ Gukesh's Heritage
Gukesh Dommaraju's historic World Chess Championship win - the 18-year-old is the world's youngest ever chess champ - has triggered a battle for credit between Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, with the chief ministers of each claiming him as their own.
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D Gukesh Is Youngest-Ever World Chess Champ, Some Others Who Held The Title
But 2023 was an eventful year for Gukesh when he unleashed himself to the world as the youngest player to reach a rating of 2750. The same year, he outperformed Viswanathan Anand as the top-ranked Indian chess player.
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China Chess Champ Defecates In Hotel Bathtub After Win, Stripped Of Title
The world of Chinese chess is in uproar over rumours of cheating and a bad behaviour scandal that saw the national champion stripped of his title Monday after a victory celebration ended with him defecating in a hotel bathtub.
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Chess Champ Hans Niemann Denies Using Vibrating Sex Toys To Beat Magnus Carlsen
The pair buried the chess hatchet and settled a $100 million lawsuit.
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"Not Runners-Up, But Run-Up To...": Anand Mahindra To R Praggnanandhaa
The entire nation has been in awe of the chess champ including industrialist Anand Mahindra.
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US Chess Champ Scanned Before Match Amid Sex Toy Cheating Claims
American chess grandmaster Hans Niemann underwent strict checking at the US Chess Championships in St Louis amid allegations that he cheated using a sex toy during his match with World Champion Magnus Carlsen.
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Former World Champ Boxer Klitschko, Chess Great Kasparov Speak Out On Russia-Ukraine Tension
The 45-year-old great, a former Olympic gold-medallist and someone who held the world heavyweight championship twice in the professional circuit, took to Twitter to send out a message of solidarity for his compatriots.
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The Queen's Gambit Deja-Vu For Hungary Chess Champ Judit Polgar
Like the 'The Queen's Gambit's' fictional heroine Beth, an orphaned chess prodigy, Judit Polgar tackled not just opponents across the board but gender stereotypes in the male-dominated sport.
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Meet This Chess Champ From Chandigarh. She's Only 4
Saanvi Aggarwal, 4, participated in the 32nd National U-7 Open Girls Chess Championship. She finished at second spot in Under-5 category and qualified for the Asian Youth U-6 Chess Championship, to be held in 2019.
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Mira Nair on Directing Lupita Nyong'o in Queen of Katwe
"We wrote the mother's part in Queen Of Katwe for Lupita because she became this meteoric star and more importantly she suited the part. We wrote the part as that of young Mother Courage, someone who had children from the age of 15," said Mira Nair
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Bill Gates takes on world chess champ, mated in 9 moves
Newly crowned Norwegian world chess champion Magnus Carlsen took just nine moves to checkmate Bill Gates in a speed game to be aired later on Friday.
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Vishwanathan Anand takes on 35 mathematicians today
Unfazed by the controversy surrounding his nationality, world champion Viswanathan Anand began his simultaneous chess game against 40 math wizards at the ongoing International Congress of Mathematicians on Tuesday.
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World champ Anand returns home
World chess champion Viswanathan Anand landed in Chennai on Thursday night to a grand reception despite the late hour.
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World champ again, Anand calls it a huge achievement
Anand defeated Russia's Vladimir Kramnik in a match-play series to retain his title in Bonn, Germany on Wednesday.
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Chess champ Bobby Fischer dies at 64
Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess genius became a Cold War icon when he dethroned the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky as world champion in 1972, has died.
