Viswanathan Anand broke the Soviet/Russian dominance of chess in 2000 by becoming world champion, fourteen years after becoming India's no.1 as a sixteen-year-old.

Neither current World Champion D Gukesh nor former world champion Vishy Anand are the top rated Indian chess player.

Chess legend Viswanathan Anand, India’s first Grandmaster, has been chosen for the prestigious SJFI Medal 2024 for his ...

Viswanathan Anand, the 5-time World Champion, took down World no.3 Arjun Erigaisi with the Black pieces., Chess News - Times Now ...

Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand will be in the mix as part of the Freedom team helmed by none other than FIDE CEO Emil Sutovsly in the World Rapid and Blitz team chess championship that ...

Arjun Erigaisi’s Team MGD1 and Viswanathan Anand’s Freedom powered into the knockouts on Day 1 of the Blitz leg at the 2025 FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Team Championships.

After living in the shadows of Gukesh for a better part of 2024 during which the fellow Chennaite won the World Championship ...

Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa became India's top-ranked chess player after winning the UzChess Cup Masters 2025, achieving a ...

Arjun Erigaisi’s Team MGD1, fresh from a triumphant gold-winning run in the Rapid section with a near-perfect record, couldn’t replicate that success in Blitz.