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Just this evening one of the chess players I knew about 3 years ago contacted me through this blog. He did not remember me that well i guess as he is still a young boy 14 years of age and at that time must have been 10 or 11. I was in Belgaum then and was just a club player (Now it is just a hobby). He was an upcoming talent and due to lack of coaching and also due to financial reasons was stuck pl...
There is bright future for chess players in Goa provided there is more governmental support, parental help and expert coaching exposure.Ivana Maria Furtado, Bhakti Kulkarni, Anurag Mhamal, Pranav Zantye, Riya Sawant, Cyrus Pereira, Umang Kaisare, Anirudh Bhat are already doing exceedingly well among the younger lot, winning state championships with promising performances at national levels in their...
It was a game which became an obsession so consuming that it wrecked the personal and political lives of two noblemen in Munshi Premchand's short story set in the Indian kingdom of Awadh which Satyajit Ray brilliantly brought to life on celluloid in his film 'Shatranj Ke Khiladi'. Chess, or chaturanga as it was known in the ancient times is more than just a mind game. On a metaphorical level chess...
VISWANATHAN ANAND'S way to the world crown began in l975. Much of the way he followed from the time he became the Asian Junior Champion in 1984 and the World Junior Champion in l987, is remembered. But few recall how Madras laid the foundations for Anand's march to the top but also for the city becoming the chess capital of India. Solar K. S. Subramanya Iyer of the Ramani Press in Mylapore and the...
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