Grandmaster Swapnil Dhopade missed a move to suffer first defeat as city's youngest Fide Master Raunak Sadhwani made a fight back to post a fluent win in the fourth round of the Rashid Nezhmetdinov ...

Discover the legendary sacrifices made by some of the greatest chess players in history, including Mikhail Tal, Nezhmetdinov, Vassily Ivanchuk, Hikaru Nakamura, Bobby Fischer, Garry Kasparov, and ...

Already out of medal contention, both the Vidarbha Masters - coach Swapnil Dhopade and his ward Raunak Sadhwani - ended their campaign on a winning note in the Rashid Nezhmetdinov Cup International ...

“Nezhmetdinovesque” is a mouthful as an adjective, but for any lover of superlatively imaginative attacking play, it perfectly describes their favorite kind of chess. The late, great Russian star ...

I WAS reading with interest at the Chess Scotland noticeboard of Alex McFarlane's postings on being an arbiter at the candidates' matches in Kazan. One describes visiting a cemetery, just a few ...