Credit: Rael Hornby, Photos: STAN HONDA/AFP via Getty Images, Felix Mittermeier On February 10, 1996, chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov played against Deep Blue, an IBM supercomputer, in the first ...
Following his defeat to Gukesh, Ding was accused of deliberately losing the match by Russian Chess Federation chief Andrei Filatov. Russian news agency TASS quoted Filatov asking the International ...
Vincent Keymer, a German Grandmaster, played a crucial role as Gukesh's openings specialist during the World Chess Championship ... against that opening with a defeat in Game 1.
“From the time I started playing chess, I have been dreaming about this moment ... The outgoing world champion was also equally gracious in defeat. “Considering my lucky escape in yesterday’s game, it ...
As chess fans the world over know by now, Gukesh is the 18th official world chess champion at the astonishingly precocious age of 18, defeating Ding 7½-6½ (3-2, with nine draws) in their $2.5 ...
Gukesh is now the youngest world champion in chess history, and the first Indian to hold the title since Vishwanathan Anand lost it to Magnus Carlsen in 2013. Ding was gracious in defeat ...
World Chess Championship match between D Gukesh and Ding Liren did not merely offer a victor and a loser. It offered lessons on life. Here's what we learned from it.