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Lucknow: Two UP athletes, Ajay Kumar Saroj and Seema Punia, brought laurels to their state on Sunday, winning silver and bronze medals in 1,500 metre .

Bathinda: Sift Kaur Samra, Punjab’s golden girl at Hangzhou Asian Games in China, won gold medal with a new world record in the individual category in.

Grandmasters Gujrathi and Arjun Erigaisi finished fifth and sixth respectively while former bronze medallist D Harika took fourth place and 2006 champion Koneru Humpy ended seventh

After a 13-year hiatus, chess is back to the 2023 Asian Games, which officially started on September 23, in Hangzhou, China. The chess program of the 19th Asian Games features four competitions: men’s individual, women’s individual, and men’s and women’s team tournaments. | Photo: Official website

Former World Champion Hou Yifan turned out to be a thorn in the side of Indian women chess players, beating both Dronavalli Harika and Koneru Humpy in successive rounds as the men player too continued to struggle in the Asian Games chess ...

The Indian men's and women's players started the Individual competitions in the Asian Games Chess by winning their respective first-round matches at the Hangzhou Qi-Yuan (Zhili) Complex here on Sunday.With the chess competitions being held in ...

The recent performances of D Gukesh, R Praggnanandhaa, Koneru Humpy, Harika Dronavalli et al have raised Indian medal hopes as chess returns to Asian Games.

Quarterfinalists at the recently-concluded FIDE World Cup in Baku, India's Vidit Santosh Gujarathi and Arjun Erigaisi will get into action in the men's individual competition as chess returns to the Asian Games after a gap of 12 years at ...

ChessBase Magazine #215 offers over an hour of video playing time with its three opening videos alone (the total playing time of all videos in CBM #215 is more than seven hours). Robert Ris uses three new games by Richard Rapport to examine what White can hope for in the Vienna Game after 5.Qf3. Ivan Sokolov examines the highly topical variation 11.h4!? in the Semi-Tarrasch, especially Giri's novelty 13.Rh3 against Praggnanandhaa. And Daniel King gives a recommendation for the side line 3......

China has not become the global No 1 in chess by accident. It’s taken dedication, decades of planning, and help from neighbours. Its meaning extends beyond the sport, a leading figure in chess says.