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R Vaishali
Vaishali Rameshbabu (born 21 June 2001) is an Indian chess grandmaster. She emerged victorious in the Women's Grand Swiss Tournament 2023, securing qualification for the Women's Candidates Tournament 2024. She won the bronze medal at Women's World Blitz Chess Championship 2024. She is the elder sister of chess grandmaster Praggnanandhaa. Personal life Vaishali was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu on 21 June 2001. Her father, Rameshbabu, works as a branch manager at TNSC Bank, and her mother, Nagalakshmi, is a homemaker. Her younger brother R Praggnanandhaa is also a chess grandmaster. Career Vaishali won the Girls' World Youth Chess Championship for Under-12s in 2012 and Under-14s in 2015. In 2013, at age 12, she defeated future World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen in a simul competition that Carlsen held while in her hometown of Chennai for the World Chess Championship 2013. In 2016, she received the Woman International Master (WIM) title, and in October 2016, she was rank ...
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Chennai
Chennai, also known as Madras (List of renamed places in India#Tamil Nadu, its official name until 1996), is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Tamil Nadu by population, largest city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost states and territories of India, state of India. It is located on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal. According to the 2011 Census of India, 2011 Indian census, Chennai is the List of most populous cities in India, sixth-most-populous city in India and forms the List of million-plus urban agglomerations in India, fourth-most-populous urban agglomeration. Incorporated in 1688, the Greater Chennai Corporation is the oldest municipal corporation in India and the second oldest in the world after City of London Corporation, London. Historically, the region was part of the Chola dynasty, Chola, Pandya dynasty, Pandya, Pallava dynasty, Pallava and Vijayanagara Empire, Vijayanagara kingdoms during various eras. The coastal land which then contained th ...
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FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020
The FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020 was an online chess tournament organised by the FIDE, Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and hosted by Chess.com. It was held between 24 July and 30 August. The event was organised after the 44th Chess Olympiad was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The final match between Russia and India was called off after several Indian team members experienced connectivity issues due to a global outage of Cloudflare servers; Russia and India were subsequently declared joint winners. The FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2021, second edition of the tournament was held in 2021. Participating teams Medalists Gazprom Brilliancy Prize Gazprom sponsored a Brilliancy (chess), brilliancy prize for the event, with the judges being 14 popular Streaming, streamers and YouTubers: Anna Cramling, Maria Emelianova, Jesse February, Anna-Maja Kazarian, Daniel King (chess player), Daniel King, Ayelen Martinez, Carlos Matamoros Franco, Daniel Naroditsky, An ...
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FIDE
The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE ( , ), is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the Sport governing body, governing body of international chess competition. FIDE was founded in Paris, France, in 1924. Its motto is , Latin for 'We are one Family'. In 1999, FIDE was recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). there are 201 FIDE Federations, member federations of FIDE. The current world chess champion is Gukesh Dommaraju, Gukesh Dommaraju. Role FIDE's most visible activity is organizing the World Chess Championship since 1948. FIDE also organizes world championships for Women's World Chess Championship, women, World Junior Chess Championship, juniors, World Senior Chess Championship, seniors, and the Disability, disabled, as well the world championships for the shorter time formats World Rapid Chess Championship, r ...
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Toronto
Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the List of North American cities by population, fourth-most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. As of 2024, the census metropolitan area had an estimated population of 7,106,379. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multiculturalism, multicultural and cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples in Canada, Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, ...
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Isle Of Man
The Isle of Man ( , also ), or Mann ( ), is a self-governing British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea, between Great Britain and Ireland. As head of state, Charles III holds the title Lord of Mann and is represented by a Lieutenant Governor. The government of the United Kingdom is responsible for the Isle of Man's military defence and represents it abroad, but the Isle of Man still has a separate international identity. Humans have lived on the island since before 6500 BC. Gaelic cultural influence began in the 5th century AD, when Irish missionaries following the teaching of St Patrick began settling the island, and the Manx language, a branch of the Goidelic languages, emerged. In 627, King Edwin of Northumbria conquered the Isle of Man along with most of Mercia. In the 9th century, Norsemen established the thalassocratic Kingdom of the Isles, which included the Hebrides and the Northern Isles, along with the Isle of Man as the southernmost island. Magnus Bar ...
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Divya Deshmukh
Divya Deshmukh (born 9 December 2005) is an Indian chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster and International Master. She is a three-time gold medalist at the Olympiad. Deshmukh has also won multiple golds at the Asian Championship, the World Junior Championship as well as the World Youth Championship. Early life Deshmukh was born in Nagpur in a Marathi family. Her parents, Jitendra Deshmukh and Namratha Deshmukh, are doctors. She received her early education from Bhavans Bhagwandas Purohit Vidya Mandir. Career Deshmukh became India's 21st woman chess Grandmaster in 2021. She won the 2022 Women's Indian Chess Championship. She also won an individual bronze medal at the 2022 Chess Olympiad. She was also part of the gold medal-winning FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020 team. As of December 2024, she is the 2nd ranked woman chess player in India. In 2023, in Almaty she won the Asian Women's Chess Championship. She then finished first in the women's rapid section o ...
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Qatar Masters Open
The Qatar Masters Open is an open chess tournament organized by the Qatar Chess Association in Doha, Qatar. Its first edition took place from 25 November to 5 December 2014. It ran for two years in 2014 and 2015 before being discontinued. It was recontinued in 2023 and has been held annually since. Winners Qatar Masters 2014 The tournament was open to every player with Elo 2300 or above. The prize fund equaled over $100,000, with $25,000 for the winner. There were also prizes for the best female and Arabic players, US$5,000 and US$3,500 for the first place in each category, respectively. Yu Yangyi, a 20-year-old Chinese chess prodigy, became the Qatar Masters Champion, scoring 7½/9; Anish Giri finished second and Vladimir Kramnik third, both scoring 7/9. : Qatar Masters 2015 This was the second edition of the Qatar Masters Open, played from December 20 to December 29, 2015. The time control for each of the tournament games was 90 minutes for the first 40 moves plus 30 minu ...
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Jerguš Pecháč
Jerguš Pecháč (born 31 October 2001) is a Slovak chess grandmaster. Chess career He came third in the U-12 European Youth Chess Championship in Prague in 2012. He was awarded the title of International Master in 2017, and Grandmaster in 2019, becoming Slovakia's youngest grandmaster. He was nominated by the FIDE president as a replacement in the Chess World Cup 2021, where he faced Alexandr Fier in the first round. Earlier, in an online World Cup qualifier, he gained attention by offering Boris Gelfand Boris Abramovich Gelfand (; born 24 June 1968) is a Belarusian-Israeli chess player. A six-time World Championship candidate (1991, 1994–95, 2002, 2007, 2011, 2013), he won the Chess World Cup 2009 and the 2011 Candidates Tournament, mak ... a draw after Gelfand had left his queen en prise following a mouseslip. References External links * *Jerguš Pecháčchess games at 365Chess.com 2001 births Living people Chess Grandmasters Slovak chess players Spor ...
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Luis Paulo Supi
Luis Paulo Supi (born October 10, 1996) is a Brazilian chess grandmaster. He became a grandmaster in 2018 by winning Magistral Acre and won the title of Brazilian Chess Champion in 2021. In addition to being a professional player, Supi is also a streamer on Twitch and content creator on YouTube. He is recognized for having beaten the 16th World Chess Champion, Magnus Carlsen, in an online match. Career Born in Catanduva, São Paulo, Supi was awarded the FIDE titles of FIDE Master (FM) and International Master (IM) in 2013 and Grandmaster (GM) in 2018. In an online blitz tournament hosted by the Internet Chess Club in May 2015, American Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura accused Supi of cheating (Supi had defeated Nakamura). The tournament judges accepted Nakamura's accusation, reverted the match's result, and banned Supi from the tournament. Brazilian Grandmaster Rafael Leitão wrote in his personal website, "Accusing him of using an engine in this match is absurd. The match is full ...
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Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2023
The Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2023 was the 85th edition of the Tata_Steel_Chess_Tournament, annual chess tournament held in Wijk aan Zee. It was held from 13 January to 29 January 2023. The field of 14 players in the Masters section included the numbers one and two of the FIDE world rankings at the time, Magnus Carlsen and Ding Liren, as well as five teenage grandmasters. Iran’s Parham Maghsoodloo was a late substitute for Poland’s Jan-Krzysztof Duda. For the first time since 2015, Carlsen lost two classical games in a row: first in round 4 against Dutch grandmaster and five-times runner-up Anish Giri, and then in round 5 against the Uzbek teenager Nodirbek Abdusattorov. Going into the last round Abdusattorov had a half point lead over Giri, but he lost his game against Dutch Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021, 2021 winner Jorden van Foreest, while Giri defeated Richárd Rapport, making Giri the tournament's winner. Germany's Alexander Donchenko won the Challengers section, se ...
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44th Chess Olympiad
The 44th Chess Olympiad was an international team chess event organised by the FIDE, International Chess Federation (FIDE) in Chennai, India, from 28 July to 10 August 2022. It consisted of two main tournaments—an Open event, enabling participation of players from all genders, and a Women's event, enabling participation of female players only—as well as several events to promote chess. The Olympiad was initially supposed to take place in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, the host of the Chess World Cup 2019, in August 2020, but it was later moved to Moscow. However, it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and then relocated to Chennai following Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This was the first Chess Olympiad to take place in India. The total number of participants was 1,737: 937 in the Open and 800 in the Women's event. The number of registered teams was 188 from 186 nations in the Open section and 162 from 160 nations in the Women's section; being ...
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Harika Dronavalli
Harika Dronavalli (born 12 January 1991) is an Indian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM). She was part of the gold winning women's team at the 45th Chess Olympiad in 2024. She has won three bronze medals in the Women's World Chess Championship, in 2012, 2015 and 2017. Harika was honored with the Arjuna Award for the year 2007–08 by the government of India. In 2016, she won the FIDE Women's Grand Prix event at Chengdu, China and rose up from world no. 11 to world no. 5 in FIDE women's ranking. In 2019, she was awarded the Padma Shri for her contributions towards the field of sports. Early life Harika was born to Ramesh and Swarna Dronavalli on 12 January 1991 in Guntur where she attended Sri Venkateswara Bala Kuteer school. Her father works as a deputy executive engineer at a Panchayat Raj subdivision in Mangalagiri. She started playing chess at a very young age and won a medal in the under-9 national championship. She followed it up with a silver m ...
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