V Pranav(15) has become the 75th Grandmaster of India by winning the Limpedea Open in Baia Mare, Romania, after securing his third and final GM norm, to attain the Grandmaster title. He had won his maiden GM norm at the Serbia Open in 2021 and the second in the Vezerkepzo GM round-robin tourney in Budapest, Hungary in June 2022. He is the 27th Grandmaster from Tamil Nadu (list […]
GM Yuri Averbakh, the world’s oldest grandmaster, a trainer, international arbiter, chess composer, endgame theoretician, writer, historian, honorary member of FIDE, and the last living participant of the famous Zurich 1953 Candidates Tournament, has passed away, three months after turning 100. He won the Moscow Championship in 1949 and earned the Grandmaster title in 1952. In 1954, he
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Fourteen-year-old Bharath Subramaniyam became India’s 73rd Chess Grandmaster on January 09, 2022. To achieve the Grandmaster (GM) title, a player has to secure three GM norms and cross the live rating of 2,500 Elo points. The 14-year-old teenager completed his 3rd and final GM Norm and crossed the requisite 2500 rating at Vergani Cup Open
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