Both Gelfand and Aronian ended on 5.5 points and Anand was sole third at the time of winning with five points in all. After a shocking first-round loss, it was a good comeback by Anand who started ...

“One feature above all determines the strength of a chess player: the undivided attention which must absolutely isolate the player from the outside world.” _ World champion Alexander Alekhine ...

My association with chess began in the summer of 1975. I was 12 years old and living in Lansdowne Court just across the road from Gorky Sadan. My friend Arun Mitra took me to Gorky Sadan to watch a ...