Indian Chess Players

How chess players tackled tricky choice of jersey numbers at GCL: Inspiration from Messi, Sachin, Dhoni, and some help from family

TodayIndiaTimes1 month ago06 mins

Last year an email landed in the inboxes of three of India’s top prodigies — D Gukesh, R Praggnanandhaa and Arjun Erigaisi — asking them a question that they never had to answer before. The team management of the Alpine SG Pipers wanted to know what they would like their jersey numbers to be. At…

Arjun Erigaisi, Gukesh in top 5 rankings after historic Chess Olympiad; Ding Liren out of top 20

TodayIndiaTimes2 months ago04 mins

India has two representatives in the top 5 rankings in FIDE’s latest published rankings after a historic Chess Olympiad where both the Indian teams won gold medals while there were four individual golds as well for the country’s chess players. In the chess rankings which are published every month, Arjun Erigaisi is ranked No 3…