Indian Men Rocket to Top Spot after Their Round 6 Win Over Netherlands in Baku Olympiad
September 10, 2016 R K Gupta
Chess, Indian Sport News, P Harikrishna, Soumya Swaminathan, SP Sethuraman, Vidit Gujrathi, World ChessIndia’s men’s team maintained its unbeaten run at Baku Chess Olympiad as the quartet of Harikrishna, B Adhiban, Vidit Gujrathi and SP Sethuraman combined to defeat the Netherlands 2.5-1.5 in Round-6 and rose to the top in men’s ranking at the current stage. For India, the lone disappointment was Vidit not repeating his winning performance […]
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Baku Chess Olympiad: India jumped to third place after 5th Round
September 9, 2016 R K Gupta
Chess, Harika Dronavalli, Indian Sport News, Tania Sachdev, Vidit Gujrathi, World ChessIndia’s Pentala Harikrishnan caused a major upset by defeating Azerbaijan’s no.1 player and that too with Blacks! Following in Harikrishna’s footsteps, Vidit Gujrathi also cornered a victory with Blacks. The other two Indians B Adhiban and SP Sethuraman had the advantage of playing with Whites but all they could manage were drawn games. Regardless, India […]
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Baku Chess Olympiad 2016: Good Show by India after 4th round
September 6, 2016 R K Gupta
Chess, Harika Dronavalli, Indian Sport News, P Harikrishna, World ChessAs of this moment, the whole chess-playing world is at Baku, which is hosting the 42nd Chess Olympiad. Hundreds of matches are going on simultaneously and after completion of each round, participants find new pairings for their next matches. While everyone focused their attention to two Round 4 matches in Open and women’s draw; Indian […]
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Indian Men and Women Begin with First & Second Round Wins in 42nd Chess Olympiad
September 4, 2016 R K Gupta
Chess, Indian Sport News, World ChessThe 42nd World Chess Olympiad got off to a spectacular start in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku. The first-day proceedings on September 1 at the beautiful Baku Chrystal Hall were confined to just the official opening of the long-awaited biennial extravaganza. The Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev inaugurated the event in a colorful opening ceremony and said in […]
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Indian Contingent Has 10 Warriors for 42nd Chess Olympiad At Baku Beginning Thursday
September 1, 2016 R K Gupta
Chess, Indian Sport News, P Harikrishna, Padmini Rout, World ChessClose on the heels of Rio Olympic Games comes another Olympiad. But it will only have the game of chess. Unlike the quadrennial Games, Chess Olympiad is a biennial event and the 2016 edition will be the 42nd edition. Also unlike Rio, where India performed poorly with just two medals; one silver and one bronze; […]
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Egyptian Duo of Gohar and Ashour Are Crowned Champions of 2016 Hong Kong Squash Open
August 30, 2016 R K Gupta
Hong Kong Open Squash, Nouran Gohar, Ramy Ashour, SquashOn Sunday August 28, curtains came down on the 2016 Cathay Pacific Sun Hung Kai Financial Hong Kong Squash Open tournament with Egyptian Nouran Gohar and Ramy Ashour emerging as the new champions. 700 people watched the women and men’s finals on a festive Sunday from outside the four-sided glass court in Hong Kong as […]
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Egyptian Men and Women Dominate in 2016 Hong Kong Open Squash Tournament
August 28, 2016 R K Gupta
Hong Kong Open Squash, Nicol David, Nouran Gohar, Ramy Ashour, SquashUSA’s Amanda Sobhy is the lone non-Egyptian in the final’s draw for men and women at the Cathay Pacific Sun Hung Kai Financial Hong Kong Open Tournament. On Saturday, all finalists were decided with Sunday’s title games showing an all-Egyptian men’s final between three-time World Champion and 2012 Hong Kong Open winner Ramy Ashour and […]
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Cameron Pilley Shocks World No.1 Mohamed Elshorbagy in Hong Kong Squash
August 26, 2016 R K Gupta
Cameron Pilley, El Sherbini, Mohamed Elshorbagy, SquashAustralia’s Cameron Pilley pulled off the biggest upset of 2016 Hong Kong Open Squash Tournament. The Australian toppled the world’s top-ranked player Mohamed Elshorbagy in the second round after an hour and half of the 5-game battle. Pilley thus avenged his title-game loss to the man, who beat him last year to emerge as the […]
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Ten Year Old Chennai Kid Praggnanandhaa Is Creating Ripples on Global Chess Scene
August 25, 2016 R K Gupta
Chess, Indian Sport News, Praggnanandhaa, World ChessWhile all of us had our attention focused at the recently concluded 2016 Rio Games or at best followed Indian cricket team’s tour to the Caribbean, a chess prodigy from Chennai did something that no other 10-year old had ever done before. Nearly 4 weeks ago, India’s R Praggnanandhaa defeated Czech Grandmaster Jan Krejci in […]
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Narsingh Yadav Handed a 4-Year Doping Ban by Court of Arbitration
August 22, 2016 R K Gupta
Indian Sport News, Indian wrestling, Narsingh Yadav, WrestlingEven without the ban, it was unlikely that wrestler Narsingh Yadav would have done anything spectacular at Rio. He joined the Indian Olympic Squad after being exonerated by NADA and waited for his 74-kg qualification round on August 18. NADA’s Navin Agrawal may not admit but he acted under heavy government influence in hastily upholding […]
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| # | Player | Point |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | PRANNOY H. S. | 62,410 |
| 2 | Viktor AXELSEN | 61,500 |
| 3 | CHOU Tien Chen | 58,580 |
| 4 | Jonatan CHRISTIE | 55,060 |
| 5 | Anthony Sinisuka GINTING | 52,440 |