World Junior Chess Championship

Chess: Narayanan loses but stays in hunt of Grandmaster norm

International Master SL Narayanan went down fighting against third seed Wei Yi of China but remained in the hunt for his Grandmaster norm after the end of the eighth round of World Junior Chess Championship on Tuesday.

World Junior Chess Championship: Narayanan beats Kovalev to stay in joint lead

International Master and India's junior champion Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan came up with yet another brilliant performance to beat higher-ranked Grandmaster Vladislav Kovalev of Belarus to stay in the joint lead after the end of the fifth round of World Junior Chess Championship.

Padmini Rout in joint lead in World Junior Chess Championship

Woman Grandmaster Padmini Rout made her presence felt with a clinical victory over Mona Khaled of Egypt in the fourth round of the world junior girls' chess championship and jumped to joint lead on Thursday.

Narayanan shocks GM Dragun in World junior chess

S.L. Narayanan, the teenager from Kerala, upset higher rated Polish GM Kamil Dragun to bring cheer to the Indian camp in the fourth round of the World Junior Chess Championship here Thursday.

World Junior Chess Championship: Grover, Gujrathi settle for a draw

Indian Grandmasters Sahaj Grover and Vidit Gujrathi played out an exciting draw as five players shared the joint lead at the end of the third round of the ongoing World Junior Chess Championship.

World Junior Chess championship: Nihal Sarin shocks Westerberg

Ten-year old Nihal Sarin, the freshly crowned World-Under 10 champion, stole the limelight with a 94-move victory over higher ranked IM Jonathan Westerberg of Sweden.

India's Vidit Gujarathi wins bronze at World Junior Chess

Gujrathi has now joined the list of elite Indians winning medals in the world junior champions starting from a gold medal won by world champion V Anand in 1987, gold by Harikrishna in 2004, gold by Abhijeet Gupta in 2008 and Bronze by Sahaj Grover in 2011.