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Anand faced the Grünfeld against Magnus Carlsen during the first game of the World Chess Championship 2014 and drew in a Rook and Queen ending. The Game of the Century between Donald Byrne and 13-year-old Bobby Fischer on October 17, 1956, featured this opening, although arriving in the Grünfeld via a transposition of moves (using 1.Nf3 Nf6 2 ...
Emanuel Lasker (left) facing incumbent champion Wilhelm Steinitz (right) in Philadelphia during the 1894 World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had already existed for decades, with several events considered by some to have established the world's foremost ...
Offbeat King's Indian. Everyman Chess. ISBN 9781857443615. Ward, Chris (2004). The Controversial Samisch King's Indian. Batsford. ISBN 9780713488722. Golubev, Mikhail (2006). Understanding the King's Indian. Gambit Publications. ISBN 1-904600-31-X. Cherniaev, Alexander (2008). The Samisch King's Indian Uncovered. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978 ...
In the game of chess, Indian Defence or Indian Game is a broad term for a group of openings characterised by the moves: . 1. d4 Nf6 [1]. They are all to varying degrees hypermodern defences, where Black invites White to establish an imposing presence in the centre with the plan of undermining and ultimately destroying it.
Chess player Vaishali Rameshbabu followed in the family tradition by becoming a grandmaster on Friday.
Twenty individuals have been awarded the Arjuna Award for exceptional performance in chess at the international level. Manuel Aaron was the first chess player to receive this award in its inception year of 1961. [12] Rohini Khadilkar was the second chess player and first female chess player to receive this award in 1980–81. In total, seven ...
Indian Chess legend Viswanathan Anand won the Nationals title for three consecutive times in 1986, 1987 and 1988. Karthik Venkataraman is the reigning Nationals Men Champion in 2024. The women's championship commenced in 1974. The first ten editions were dominated by the Khadilkar sisters Vasanti, Jayshree and Rohini. Rohini is the youngest and ...
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