Hatay (Turkey), Dec 19 (IANS) For the second successive time, India’s top rated player in the competition Koneru Humpy crashed out to China’s 16-year-old Hou Yifan in the semi-finals of the Women’s World Chess Championship. Faced with a must-win situation in the second game of the semi-finals, the Indian star managed only a draw after [...]

But largely irrelevant in the longer term on which the Chinese are focused. By the time the Chinese decide they will have to allow the renminbi to appreciate, they will have accomplished two long-standing objectives. First, their vaults will be stuffed with an even larger hoard of American IOUs, enough to give them an important [...]

Koneru Humpy has reached the semi-finals of the World Chess Championships on Monday after a draw in the second game of the quarter-finals. Humpy, who needed a draw to make the next round after winning the first game of the quarter-finals, had to work hard against China’s Ju Wenjun. The Indian, a semi-finalist in the [...]

Indian chess player, Koneru Humpy secured a much needed draw against China’s Ju Wenjun in the second game of the quarterfinals to enter the semifinals of the World Women’s Chess Championship being held in Hatay, Turkey. Humpy, who had made the semifinals in the last edition of the championship too, will face Yifan Hao of China [...]

Title: What To Look For In A Chess Set Word Count: 499 Summary: There are almost as many different types and styles of chess sets as there are chess players. It may be hard to decide upon a particular set, but it’s relatively easy to narrow your choices down to a particular category. Here’s a [...]