D Gukesh visited the Tirupati Balaji temple located on Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday, where he tonsured his head and donated his hair as an offering to the Hindu deity Venkateswara, seeking divine ...

World chess champion D Gukesh stands firm on the importance of classical chess despite the rise of freestyle formats. While ...

Pranav Venkatesh's triumph comes just months after Dommaraju Gukesh made history by becoming only the second Indian after ...

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Nothing seems to have gone his way at Weissenhaus, where he ended the first event of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025 without a single win. To put that into context, that’s zero wins, 11 draws ...

However, the Indian Grandmaster’s chief trainer Gajewski is still not sure how much time Gukesh must dedicate towards improving his Freestyle game as he still has a lot to earn in classical chess and ...

In an earlier interview with ChessBase India during the Weissenhaus Grand Slam event, Gukesh also remarked that Chess960 is an experiment, and he doesn’t see it taking over classical chess.

And chess has become a major esport. So that’s the thing, right, chess has historically been a game that has revelled in long, slow, plodding games. The time controls for classical chess games are in ...