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Tata Steel Chess Day 3: Praggnanandhaa takes lead with win over Erigaisi; Gukesh draws with Caruana
Gukesh and Caruana are both on two points after the result and it remains to be seen who among the rest could overtake them.
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Tata Steel Chess Day 2: Praggnanandhaa wins against Harikrishna; Gukesh plays out fighting draw
Gukesh grabbed a win from the jaws of defeat, while R Praggnanandhaa also earned a draw after being in a losing position.
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Tata Steel Chess Day 1: Gukesh grabs last-gasp win over Giri in first game as reigning world champion
Gukesh grabbed a win from the jaws of defeat, while R Praggnanandhaa also earned a draw after being in a losing position.
Chess
Carlsen, Nepo agree to share open Blitz title; Ju wins women's
Carlsen and Nepo agreed to a draw after three straight draws in tiebreakers; while Ju beat compatriot Lei Tingjie.
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FIDE World Blitz Championships 2024: Vaishali leads standings on Day 1; no Indian man qualifies for knockouts
The World Blitz Chess Championship is all set for a grand finale on the final day of the year with India in with a chance for a third world champion in 2024 and a heavyweight competition in the Open section.
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2024: For Indian sport, the year of 55. Rf2
After 87.58 in 2021, there's another alphanumeric combination now to remember the year that went by in Indian sport - the one that made D Gukesh, world champion.
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Chess ace returns to event after dress code flap
Top-ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen is headed back to the World Blitz Championship after he was fined in another event for refusing to change out of jeans.
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FIDE World Rapid Championships 2024: Koneru Humpy wins second women's title; Volodar Murzin wins in open section
Koneru Humpy won the women's world rapid title for the second time; Arjun Erigaisi fell a point short in the open section
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Chess legend opens up about being DQ'd over wearing jeans
Chess legend Magnus Carlsen talks about his disqualification from a tournament for wearing jeans.
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Jeans gambit: Chess great exits event over pants
Chess great Magnus Carlsen quit the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in New York after governing body FIDE barred him for wearing jeans.
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FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships 2024: Carlsen announces shock withdrawal; Arjun, Harika, Humpy among leaders after Day 2
A dress-code violation over the wearing of jeans saw Carlsen fined and after refusing to comply, he was not paired for round 9, resulting in his withdrawal.
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FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships 2024: Carlsen struggles on first day; Arjun, Raunak, Harika top Indian performers
The first day of the World Championship in the shorter versions of chess saw five rounds of rapid chess and teenagers shine through in it.
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FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships 2024: All you need to know
The 2024 FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championship will be held from December 26 (early December 27 in India) to December 31 (early January 1 in India) in Wall Street, New York.
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Neeraj, Pant, Vinesh, Vishy...Gukesh walks in footsteps of champions who defied odds, ignored convention
Belief. It's the one quality that describes Gukesh -- and with him, elite Indian sport -- the best.
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Paddy Upton's helping hand to Gukesh: Video calls, temperature controls, last-minute flight out
"Most athletes don't become world champions when they win the final, they arrive there at the start as champions," Upton said.
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Gukesh gets his trophy: 'This moment was why I did every little thing so far'
It was a moment that, he said, he had replayed millions of times in his head.
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The moment of victory for Gukesh Dommaraju in World Chess Championship
Gukesh Dommaraju defeats Ding Liren to win 2024 World Chess Championship title.
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The simple heist: There was only one plan, for Gukesh to be Gukesh
Although the final moments may have been dramatic, so it seemed Gukesh had manufactured a win, this was all thought out well before the world championship even began.
Chess
A new king crowned: Stunned silence, then chaos and tears as Gukesh wins world title
D Gukesh defeated Ding Liren to become world champion after a dramatic victory in the final game of the championship.
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'I've been living this moment since I was 6' - Gukesh after becoming youngest chess champion
The new world champion is also happy that he is the one who got back the title after Viswanathan Anand (five-time champion) lost to Magnus Carlsen in their home town in Chennai.
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D Gukesh becomes youngest-ever world champion of chess, defeats Ding Liren with last-gasp victory
A catastropic blunder from Ding Liren on move 55 saw Gukesh capitalise and follow Viswanathan Anand in becoming the second world champion from India.
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Gukesh lets golden chance slip in penultimate game of chess World Championship
A well-prepared Gukesh had all the advantage in game 13 but one slight misjudgment meant Ding defended his way back for a draw.
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Ding holds Gukesh at bay to keep scores tied after penultimate game of World Championship
Follow live updates from game 13 of the world chess championship, with Gukesh and Ding tied at 6 points apiece.
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Gukesh's ambition vs Ding's momentum: What to expect from chess World Championship's home stretch
On the final rest day, here's a look at the way ahead for Gukesh and Ding as the chess World Championship nears the finish line.
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Ding Liren shows Gukesh, and the world, why he is champion
With his best game since becoming world champion, Ding Liren tied the World Chess Championship match 6-6.
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Eight matches that doomed Louis van Gaal at Manchester United
John Brewin reviews the eight matches that ultimately doomed Louis van Gaal's tenure as manager at Manchester United.
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'I think I'm a better fisherman than Steyn and Morkel'
South African fast bowler Kyle Abbott brags about his angling skills, and confesses to bullying Australians in the Kings XI dressing room
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Was Cozier the last of a golden age of commentators?
The sport and media landscape has changed so much that we may never have definitive voices like his ever again
