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Tata Steel Chess: Praggnanandhaa joins Gukesh in lead after round 12; Arjun beats Abdusattorov
Ahead of Sunday's final round, R Praggnanandhaa joins world champion D Gukesh atop the Tata Steel Masters standings
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Pragg stuns Caruana to close up on leader Gukesh: Round 11 of Tata Steel Chess
World champion D Gukesh climbed to world no. 3 in the live rankings, and has a 0.5 lead with two rounds to go.
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Unbeaten Gukesh retains lead, Pragg bounces back: Round 10 of Tata Steel Chess
India's Gukesh scored a win over compatriot Leon Mendonca in ninth round of the Tata Steel Masters to go clear at the top.
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Gukesh goes clear at the top after round 9 of Tata Steel Chess
India's Gukesh scored a win over compatriot Leon Mendonca in ninth round of the Tata Steel Masters to go clear at the top.
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Can D Gukesh win Tata Steel Chess 2025?
The world champion leads compatriot Praggnanandhaa and Uzbekistan's Nodirbek Abdusattorov on tie break criteria. Can he hold on?
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Praggnanandhaa draws with Gukesh in table-top clash: Round 8 of Tata Steel Chess
India's Gukesh and R Praggnanandhaa continue to lead the Tata Steel Chess tournament along with Nodirbek Abdusattorov.
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Gukesh scores big win to join leaders after Round 7 of Tata Steel Chess
Gukesh now has five points after seven rounds, the same as R Praggnanandhaa and Nodirbek Abdusattorov.
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Gukesh pulls off big escape to stay within reach of leaders in Round 6 of Tata Steel Chess
R Praggnanandhaa was joined in the lead by Nodirbek Abdusattorov, with D Gukesh only 0.5 behind them.
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Gukesh grinds out win to close gap on leader Pragg in Round 5 of Tata Steel Chess
R Praggnanandhaa was joined in the lead by Nodirbek Abdusattorov, with D Gukesh only 0.5 behind them.
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Pragg leads after third win, Gukesh draws in Round 4 of Tata Steel Chess
World Champion D Gukesh needed six hours to draw, while R Praggnanandhaa took the sole lead overall with 3.5/4
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Tata Steel Chess Day 3: Praggnanandhaa takes lead with win over Erigaisi; Gukesh draws with Caruana
Gukesh and Caruana are both on two points after the result and it remains to be seen who among the rest could overtake them.
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Tata Steel Chess Day 2: Praggnanandhaa wins against Harikrishna; Gukesh plays out fighting draw
Gukesh grabbed a win from the jaws of defeat, while R Praggnanandhaa also earned a draw after being in a losing position.
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Tata Steel Chess Day 1: Gukesh grabs last-gasp win over Giri in first game as reigning world champion
Gukesh grabbed a win from the jaws of defeat, while R Praggnanandhaa also earned a draw after being in a losing position.
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Carlsen, Nepo agree to share open Blitz title; Ju wins women's
Carlsen and Nepo agreed to a draw after three straight draws in tiebreakers; while Ju beat compatriot Lei Tingjie.
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FIDE World Blitz Championships 2024: Vaishali leads standings on Day 1; no Indian man qualifies for knockouts
The World Blitz Chess Championship is all set for a grand finale on the final day of the year with India in with a chance for a third world champion in 2024 and a heavyweight competition in the Open section.
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2024: For Indian sport, the year of 55. Rf2
After 87.58 in 2021, there's another alphanumeric combination now to remember the year that went by in Indian sport - the one that made D Gukesh, world champion.
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Chess ace returns to event after dress code flap
Top-ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen is headed back to the World Blitz Championship after he was fined in another event for refusing to change out of jeans.
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FIDE World Rapid Championships 2024: Koneru Humpy wins second women's title; Volodar Murzin wins in open section
Koneru Humpy won the women's world rapid title for the second time; Arjun Erigaisi fell a point short in the open section
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Chess legend opens up about being DQ'd over wearing jeans
Chess legend Magnus Carlsen talks about his disqualification from a tournament for wearing jeans.
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Jeans gambit: Chess great exits event over pants
Chess great Magnus Carlsen quit the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in New York after governing body FIDE barred him for wearing jeans.
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FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships 2024: Carlsen announces shock withdrawal; Arjun, Harika, Humpy among leaders after Day 2
A dress-code violation over the wearing of jeans saw Carlsen fined and after refusing to comply, he was not paired for round 9, resulting in his withdrawal.
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FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships 2024: Carlsen struggles on first day; Arjun, Raunak, Harika top Indian performers
The first day of the World Championship in the shorter versions of chess saw five rounds of rapid chess and teenagers shine through in it.
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FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships 2024: All you need to know
The 2024 FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championship will be held from December 26 (early December 27 in India) to December 31 (early January 1 in India) in Wall Street, New York.
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Neeraj, Pant, Vinesh, Vishy...Gukesh walks in footsteps of champions who defied odds, ignored convention
Belief. It's the one quality that describes Gukesh -- and with him, elite Indian sport -- the best.
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Paddy Upton's helping hand to Gukesh: Video calls, temperature controls, last-minute flight out
"Most athletes don't become world champions when they win the final, they arrive there at the start as champions," Upton said.
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Eight matches that doomed Louis van Gaal at Manchester United
John Brewin reviews the eight matches that ultimately doomed Louis van Gaal's tenure as manager at Manchester United.
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'I think I'm a better fisherman than Steyn and Morkel'
South African fast bowler Kyle Abbott brags about his angling skills, and confesses to bullying Australians in the Kings XI dressing room
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Was Cozier the last of a golden age of commentators?
The sport and media landscape has changed so much that we may never have definitive voices like his ever again
