Congratulations to the Gotham Knights on winning the 2023 Pro Chess League playoffs. After five weeks of regular season play (covered here and here), the top eight teams advanced to a single-elimination knock-out tournament. The Gotham Knights and Shanghai Tigers met in the finals, with Gotham winning the 16-game match by a three-point margin. The fight for third place was an all-India affair, with teams MGD1 and falling to the Indian Yogis.
Sardar Patel Vidyalaya and Bal Bharti School, Pitampura, emerged as the winners in the III-V Class and VI-VIII class categories, respectively in the Inter-School Chess Tournament organised by Global Chess League, a joint venture between Tech .
Global Chess League (GCL) announced Dubai as the venue for the inaugural edition, to take place from June 21 to July 2.The announcement was made at a press conference in the presence of Aman Puri, Consul General of India, Dubai, Viswanathan .