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Vantika Agrawal scored two gold medals for the country at the Chess Olympiad 2024 - one team and the other individual. She was also part of the team that won the bronze medal at the Asian Games 2023. On 17th of January 2025, she won the prestigious Arjuna Award. Video: President of India YouTube channel #Chess #ChessBaseIndia … [Read more...] about Vantika Agrawal receives the prestigious Arjuna Award

On 17th of January Gukesh received the major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna award in New Delhi. It is India's highest sporting honour and Gukesh was one of the 4 sports players from the country to receive it for 2024. A proud moment for Indian chess. Video: President of India YouTube channel #Chess #ChessBaseIndia … [Read more...] about Gukesh receives India’s highest sporting honour – Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award

On January 16, 2025, the All India Chess Federation hosted a grand event at The Lalit Hotel in New Delhi to honor India's chess prodigies. The world's youngest World Champion, Dommaraju Gukesh, and Women's World Rapid Champion, Koneru Humpy, were celebrated for their incredible achievements. In a historic announcement, AICF declared awards of ₹1 crore for Gukesh and ₹50 lakh … [Read more...] about Grand Honors for Gukesh and Humpy: AICF Announces ₹1 Crore & ₹50 Lakh Awards!

World Rapid 2013 champion - GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (AZE, 2705) faces the defending World Blitz champion - GM Magnus Carlsen (NOR, 2890) in Round 6 of World Blitz 2024. Replay the game https://share.chessbase.com/SharedGames/game/?p=6Nw/BbfsPM6z5Km9gME9hRw2xa12kPLm7qxCCA520GR/eTC7XAhootqwiiqkI/bc Video: ChessBase India #Chess #ChessBaseIndia #Blitz #WorldBlitz #Azerbaijan … [Read more...] about When Clock starts late – Shakhriyar Mamedyarov vs Magnus Carlsen | World Blitz 2024

Group e4 is a fantastic initiative of Satya Prabhakar, the founder of Sulekha.com who has been working extremely hard to bring people together to raise funds for the young talents of Indian chess! In this video we see the Group e4 meet up that happened at the Madras Club after the breakfast at the home of Vishy and Aruna Anand. It was amazing to see Gukesh, Anand, Pragg, Vidit, … [Read more...] about When Vishy Anand, Gukesh, Pragg, Vidit and Vaishali were in one room | Group e4