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‘Even I got bored after few World Championship titles’: Vishy Anand on Magnus Carlsen walking away
April 24, 2026 10:42 am
Carlsen won five world chess championship titles — beating opponents like Anand (twice), Sergey Karjakin, Fabiano Caruana and Ian Nepomniachtchi — before walking away from the 2023 world championship battle, thus abdicating his throne.
Viswanathan Anand to Gukesh: Ignore the criticism, but some of it is legitimate
April 22, 2026 8:21 pm
With Gukesh’s form dipping in recent years, some of the comments from former world champions like Magnus Carlsen and Garry Kasparov appear to question his credentials as a world champion.
Viswanathan Anand: ‘Vaishali was always in better control of nerves than rest of them’
April 17, 2026 11:53 am
The win means Vaishali is only the second Indian woman in history who will compete at the Women’s World Championship after Koneru Humpy in Tirana in 2011.
Why is Praggnanandhaa using a 20-year-old as his Second at Candidates 2026?
April 03, 2026 1:22 pm
The chess 'Second' used to be a grizzled grandmaster with decades of experience. In Cyprus, veterans whispering Soviet-era lines have been replaced by teenagers grinding engine lines at 3 am
Viswanathan Anand names Divya Deshmukh and Vaishali in dark horse category in tier list for Candidates tournament
March 26, 2026 5:26 pm
The Tier List, made before Humpy's withdrawal from the Candidates, had all the eight players categorised into four groups: “Winner”, “Top 3”, “Dark Horse” and “Difficult”.
Why people go crazy at the Candidates tournament
March 25, 2026 10:46 pm
The World Championships and World Cup in chess offers their own unique challenge but the Candidates is where all hell breaks loose
Anish Giri's Vishy Anand fan-post, Carlsen's 'old Americans' picks and Nepo's dark horse Wei Yi
March 17, 2026 11:50 pm
Vishy Anand speaking to FIDE had said Caruana, Nakamura and Giri could potentially do well at the Cyprus event
Why Viswanathan Anand thinks R Praggnanandhaa is already 'mentally peaking' ahead of Candidates despite 'slowing down a bit'
March 16, 2026 11:30 pm
Viswanathan Anand said while R Praggnanandhaa has slowed down a bit in the last few months, the 20-year-old will be mentally ready for the FIDE Candidates tournament.
Retro-sport: When fans flocked to Russian House to watch India's 1st chess Grandmaster take on India's 2nd GM
January 28, 2026 2:34 pm
Viswanathan Anand, who had become India’s first Grandmaster played Dibyendu Barua, Calcutta’s own, in 1992; Such was the interest that six-seven manual demonstration boards had to be put up all around the hall
'Won't be a normal match': Vishy Anand teases epic Chennai return for World Chess Championship if Praggnanandhaa wins Candidates
January 16, 2026 10:02 pm
Chennai did host a World Championship event in 2013, when Anand was the reigning champion and battling a young Magnus Carlsen. It was at that world championship that Carlsen had won the first of his five crowns.
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