Pragg goes through to the final! He beats Fabiano Caruana in the tiebreak and will face Magnus Carlsen now.
What a performance!
@FIDE_chess
#FIDEWorldCup2023
Congratulations to
@chessvaishali
. She has qualified for the Candidates 2024 ( with the other
@WacaChess
mentee
@rpragchess
a.k.a her brother). We are so proud of this achievement and look forward to working with her in the next few months as she goes on to the candidates 2024.
Congratulations to
@DGukesh
for an amazing achievement. Top 10 & India no.1
@WacaChess
are proud that our Mentor and mentee do have done our country proud by achieving the unique distinction of 2 Indians in the top ten. We wish our WACa mentees & talents the best at
@FIDE_chess
What an excellent performance by our two mentees.
@ArjunErigaisi
and
@DGukesh
both beat the World Champion and are now in with a good chance to qualify! Congrats!
🇮🇳 Gukesh D (2743) defeats 🇫🇷 Alireza Firouzja (2760), reaches a score of 8.5/13 and heads into the final round of the
#FIDECandidates
as the sole leader.
Ian Nepomniachtchi (2758) and 🇺🇸 Hikaru Nakamura (2789) are trailing him by half a point. Will 🇺🇸 Fabiano Caruana beat 🇮🇳…
Congratulations to
@rpragchess
for such an inspiring performance. Waca is proud of his achievement and we look forward to working with him towards the next goal- the candidates 2024.
@vishy64theking
Congratulations to
@chessvaishali
for the Arjuna Award. A great accolade for her achievements . We are sure our
@WacaChess
mentee will do us proud in the months to come.
Praggnanandhaa (
@rpragchess
) clinches Gold at Asian Continental Chess Championship 2022 Open
He drew his final round game against GM Adhiban to win the tournament with an unbeaten 7/9. Thus, he qualifies to the World Cup 2023.
📷Shahid
#Chess
#ChessBaseIndia
#AsianContinental
BREAKING | Leon Luke Mendonca wins the 2024 Tata Steel Challengers!
After an exciting final round, where Daniel Dardha won his game over Liam Vrolijk, Leon Luke Mendonca beats Divya Deshmukh to claim his victory in the Challengers! 🎉
Congratulations, Leon! 👏
#TataSteelChess
On International Chess day our Waca mentees have been doing exceptionally.
@DGukesh
with an incredible performance inches closer to the Top 10 !
@chessvaishali
has gained 22 rating points to 2450!! Its been a great
#WorldChessDay
at
@WacaChess
Nihal Sarin 🇮🇳 wins a pulsating Armageddon against Rauf Mamedov 🇦🇿 in round one of the
#Chesscomglobal
🏆
18-year-old
@NihalSarin
will now play former world champion, Vladimir Kramnik in round 2 😍
Kudos Nihal! 🙌🏻
#Akshayakalpa
Raunak
@Sadhwani2005
wins FIDE World Junior Rapid Open 2023
GM Raunak scored 8.5/11 and finished a half point ahead of the field. Despite starting with only 3/5, he won the next four games in-a-row to get back in the lead. He drew the penultimate round against the eventual…
A proud moment for Indian chess, as the 3rd Indian woman to become Grandmaster, Vaishali Rameshbabu receives the prestigious Arjuna Award from honorable President Droupadi Murmu!
Huge congratulations to Vaishali, her family, and her whole team.
Huge Congratulations to Vaishali Rameshbabu for becoming India's 84th Grandmaster! She is the 3rd Indian Woman to achieve the Grandmaster Title.
Vaishali has started with 2 consecutive wins in the Ellobregat Open in Spain, and this is how she crossed the 2500 rating mark to…
Considered as one of the greatest in chess theory. A legend and excellent mentor.
@WacaChess
we are so thrilled that our mentees get to interact with the one and only Boris Gelfand.
@ChessbaseIndia
@chesscom_in
@vishy64theking
Congratulations to
@DGukesh
for winning the Chennai Grand Masters 2023! 🏆🎉
Both Gukesh and Arjun Erigaisi scored 4.5/7, but Gukesh came out on top thanks to better tiebreaks.
❗️ With this win, the Indian prodigy surpasses Anish Giri in the
#FIDECircuit
leaderboard and moves…
#HTWknd
| Kingsmen: The golden circle
Step inside Viswanathan Anand's elite chess academy. See how it does things differently. How its efforts are paying off. And how some young grandmasters are, in small ways, surpassing Anand himself. Via
@ninansusan
Congratulations to
@chessvaishali
. An amazing achievement. We are proud to celebrate our accomplished GM as she is truly showing what a champion she is .
Congratulations to
@mittal_gm77
on a great performance. Lots of hard work and focus . We are so proud of this achievement and wish you many more
@WacaChess
GM Leon Mendonca created history yesterday by becoming the first Indian player to win the Hit Open 2023! Today, he added the cherry on the top. The youngster defeated FM Tisaj Domen in the final round to score a mind-blowing 9/9! What a performance.
📷: Nova Gorica Chess Club
Check out the complete video of the Tata Steel Chess India Rapid and Blitz 2022 Grand Inauguration ceremony!
The tournament starts in just a few minutes from now. Who are your favourites in the Open and Women's event, and why?
Proud to announce
@rpragchess
&
@Bhaktichess
have been awarded the Arjuna Award. An excellent moment in a year where Indian chess has been in the limelight.
Among many things
@vishy64theking
does with WACA, it's his knack for finding tailormade solutions for 🇮🇳's next gen of world-beaters that stands out. His inputs were critical in
#Gukesh
hiring Gajewski and Vaishali working with Sandipan Chanda.
2nd of December was a rest day at the
@tschessindia
2022. But
@vishy64theking
, Sandeep Singhal and the youngsters at
@WacaChess
were busy discussing on how they could work on new ideas with regards to training, chess improvement and tournaments.
📷: Sagar Shah