Padma Vibhushan Awardee and former 5-time World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand will inaugurate the FIDE World Junior Chess Championship at Radisson GIFT City Club at Gandhinagar on Sunday. The Gujarat State Chess Association (GSCA), under the .
international master divya deshmukh of nagpur emerged champion of the sharjah challengers 2024, the other day. in the final round, divya played out a draw against im leya garifullina to emerge winner. at the end of the ninth and final round, divya, who was seeded eighth in the competition, had a tie with russian im leya garifullina and iranian fifth seed sina movahed. however, on the basis of buchholz tie-break score of 47, divya emerged champion leya had 45 while sina had 41 buchholz tie-break score. di
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The fourth edition of the Djerba Chess Festival is taking place on February 17-25 on the island of Djerba in Tunisia. Situated on the south-east coast of Tunisia, Djerba is a small, flat island at only 54 metres above sea level. The main event is the Masters, an 8-player single round-robin. After five rounds, Hans Niemann and Daniel Dardha (pictured) are sharing the lead. | All photos by Diana Mihajlova