ELO

D Gukeshof Chennai touched Elo 2750 with two wins in the last two rounds of Turkish League on Thursday. With that, he broke Magnus Carlsen’s record of being the youngest to touch this level of FIDE rating. When the world governing body…

  Photograph: Kind Courtesy Reykjajvik Chess/Twitter Young Indian Grandmaster R Pragganandhaa on Tuesday won the prestigious Reykjavik Open chess tournament in Reykjajvik, Iceland, with 7.5 points from nine rounds. The 16-year-old…

'I am here in my apartment alone. And I don't know what is in store. The attack happened all of a sudden. So, couldn't have done anything.' IMAGE: Anwesh Upadhyay, who has an ELO rating of 2352 (the ranking points in chess), does not have…

India’s young Grandmaster R. Praggnanandhaa hogged international limelight with his shock win over World Number One and five-time World champion Magnus Carlsen in the Airthings Masters online rapid chess tournament recently.The 16-year-old…

The 17-year-old, a 12th standard student of Bhavan’s Sri Ramakrishna Vidyalaya here, crossed the mandatory ELO 2,500-mark to earn the title Raja Rithvik of Telangana has become a Grandmaster after crossing the ELO 2,500 mark in the…