Divya Deshmukh and Konero Hampi (Photo by Michael Waloza/Norwegian Chess) New Delhi: Like any other elite chess tournament, Norwegian chess pitted Indian grandmaster Divya Deshmukh against compatriot Konero Hampi, the country’s top-ranked female player, in an all-Indian clash at Oslo’s Deichmann Björvik Library on Tuesday. It is standard practice to draw two players from the…
D. Gokesh, Divya Deshmukh, Koneru Hampi, and R. Praganananda (Photo by Mikel Valoza/Norwegian Chess) New Delhi: This year, Norwegian chess returned to the capital Oslo for the first time, after 13 consecutive years in Stavanger. In another change, it won’t be a global number. 1 and five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen’s only classical appearance of…
Koniro Hampi, Divya Deshmukh, and R. Praganandha with sister R. Vaishali (Photos by Andrey Anusov and Michael Valuza/FIDE) NEW DELHI: Even as Conroe Hampi’s possible withdrawal from the candidates’ tournament in Cyprus over the Iran war raised concerns, India’s next generation trio of Divya Deshmukh, R Vaishali and R Praganandha are set to compete in…