Chess - General Thread

[prasen9]

BTW, I do not want to curb anyone's enthusiasm. If people want to fill the forum with badly written, fake information articles, please feel free to do so. I am just posting my opinion. I would like people to post articles that are factual. If people want to post more jingoistic articles, so be it.

I welcome almost all of Saffron's posts and I am very thankful that he is adding his perspective and energy to keep this board vibrant. I just objected to one post that contained misinformation. That is all. My objection and a bit of frustration is with the appalingly low standards of journalism in today's newspapers more so than Saffron. Please do not get dissuaded to post Saffron. My request would be to do a quick common-sense check about any information you post but if you want to ignore that request that is fine.

[Saffron Lenin]

Please do not get dissuaded to post Saffron.

It is not possible to dissuade Lenin, especially when he is safforonised

[ankit1407]

Where is Jaydeep btw, have not seen a post for a long long time ?

He is fine. I sent him a message on FB worried when not seeing him active here for quite some time. He replied that he is ok and not posting here as got occupied with some other pressing matters.

Thanks Sameer, glad he is doing good..

[Atithee]

It is not possible to dissuade Lenin, especially when he is safforonised

Classic!

[HockeywithBilli]

[rajitghosh]

Just for the records a random chess player by the name of Vishwanathan Anand has won the classical world championship in matchplay, league and knockout format, won the rapid world championship a couple of times, the blitz World Cup and if that was not enough also won the Chess World Cup a couple of times.

[prasen9]

Anand withdrew from the Freestyle Chess tournament after the bouhaha with Caralsen in NY wrt wearing jeans! Anand is the FIDE VP now. They got a 19 year old prodigy to replace him. Intriguing why Arjun was not invited as the next top player missing.

[sameerph]

Aravindh Chithambaram won title at Prague Masters 2025 in a star studded field.

Aravindh Chithambaram claims Prague Masters 2025 title

With that Aravindh Chithambaram moves to #14 in world rankings and now we have 4 players in top 15 of world rankings ( Gukesh at #3, Arjun Erigaissi at #5, Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu at #8.

We are really becoming a chess powerhouse in the world.

[prasen9]

I think we can find very good players from other parts of India then just Chennai (I know Gujrathi is from Maharashtra). We need to figure out a way to copy the Anand model ...