This month 18-year-old Pranav Venkatesh became junior world chess champion, crowning a string of successes not just for Indian players, but also for a chess academy set up by Viswanathan Anand ...

D Gukesh, left, with Viswanathan Anand during a press conference.(PTI) Gukesh is third with an Elo rating of 2787, behind second-placed Hikaru Nakamura (2802) and Magnus Carlsen (2833).

This marks a significant achievement for Indian chess, with Viswanathan Anand congratulating him for his remarkable performance. The victory brings the open title back to India after nearly 17 years.

The event will be attended by renowned chess grandmaster Viswanathan Anand, who will deliver the convocation address. These participants from programmes viz the Post Graduate Programme in ...

Highlighting the appeal of chess for all, visiting Chess Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand last week played against 19 children at the same time during an exhibition event in Nicosia. “Chess is like ...

Viswanathan declining to join the Indian Police Service in 1961. A student of Loyola College between 1957 and 1961, Mr. Viswanathan had cleared the Union Public Service Commission examination in ...

Readers have noticed an overlap between “The Woman in the Window,” by A.J. Finn — a pen name for Dan Mallory — and Sarah A. Denzil’s “Saving April.” By Alexandra Alter Outsized ...

Mayawati announced that nobody would succeed her in the BSP while she is alive, removing her nephew Akash Anand from his roles. She reinstated Ramji Gautam and Anand Kumar as national coordinators.

Viswanathan Anand has picked American Grandmaster Bobby Fischer as the greatest chess player of all time as he snubbed current world No.1 Magnus Carlsen and Russian greats like Vladimir Kramnik and ...

Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand is a new entrant in the IE 100 list of most powerful people in India in 2025, coming in at No 36. Anand is the original world-beater from India on the ...