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Candidates Chess: Meet 17-year-old D GukeshD Gukesh, youngest winner to challenge for world title
India's 17-year-old Grandmaster D Gukesh made history by winning the Candidates Chess Tournament, becoming the youngest challenger ever for the world title. He will compete against China's Ding ...
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Candidates Chess Tournament 2024: Vidit Gujrathi defeats World No. 3 Nakamura! Latest scoreboard here
Candidates Chess 2024 Round 9: India’s Vidit Gujrathi secured another impressive victory in the 9th round of the Candidates Chess Tournament. This time she defeated World No. 3 champion ...
After Carlsen, Nakamura expresses disinterest in chasing chess world title, prefers Freestyle: 'Basically a lottery'
Hikaru Nakamura has called the FIDE Candidates Tournament a ’lottery,’ questioning its unpredictability. He said that he will ...
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Gukesh Dommaraju, 18, has made history. Can the prodigy become the youngest chess world champion?
Gukesh, from the city of Chennai on the Indian south coast, a hotbed for chess talent, won the eight-player 2024 Candidates tournament in Toronto to set up the chance to become the first teenager ...
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Indian teenager creates chess history after winning major tournament in Canada
This comes after he became the youngest player to win the important Candidates Tournament in Canada ... He is now set to be the “youngest World Chess Championship challenger in history ...
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Chess-Russian grandmaster Spassky dies aged 88
Former world champion Anatoly Karpov, who beat Spassky in the semi-finals of the Candidates tournament in 1974, paid a warm tribute. "My idols in chess were Jose Capablanca and Boris Spassky.