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Only 15 chess players have touched 2800 Elo points on the FIDE rating list . Arjun Erigaisi was the last to reach there, and it has been two years since. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave crossed the mark in 2016. With a peak rating of 2819, the French Grandmaster is the seventh strongest player in chess history. He…
Anish Giri’s win over M. Pranesh was the highlight of Pipers’ win against Masters. | Photo Credit: SUDHAKARA JAIN The Bangalore Golf Club is just across the road. That suits Magnus Carlsen fine. He could come to Lalit Ashok, the venue of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League, after his golfing stint at the course….
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India received another setback in the run-up to the Asian Games with a third wrestler, Deepak (Greco-Roman 67kg), testing positive for a banned substance. As a result, India will lose his berth in the mega event. According to sources, Deepak was tested during the Asian Games selection trials in Lucknow on May 31 and returned…
Vishal will be one of the top attractions. | Photo Credit: Ritu Raj Konwar The focus will squarely be on the big names travelling for the Asian Games as the invitation-only, season-ending Indian Athletics Final Series at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here on Thursday is set to be the most decorated domestic event of the…
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Tilak says his biggest goal is to play Test cricket. | Photo Credit: R. RAGU Skipper Tilak Varma has been the standout player for South Zone in the Duleep Trophy this year. The Hyderabad batter was instrumental in taking the team to the final, leading from the front with unbeaten knocks of 116 and 51 in the semifinal against North. In…
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A five-day First Class match in India — usually reserved for knockout fixtures — is designed to give teams a chance to push for an outright result. At the same time, it tends to produce oddities because the focus is on securing the first-innings lead, which is enough to claim victory. Once that is achieved, the…
Tolkien, who has been well prepared, is expected to score in the B.A. Nanaiah Memorial Trophy (1,600m), the main event of the races to be held here on Thursday (Sept. 10). False rails (width about 4m from 1,600m to the winning post) will be in position. 1. SECUNDERABAD PLATE (1,200m), rated 00 to 25, 5-y-o…
India’s Mirabai Chanu clinches her third successive weightlifting Commonwealth Games gold medal in the women’s 48kg category at the 23rd Commonwealth Games, in Glasgow, Scotland, Sunday, July 26, 2026. | Photo Credit: PTI While World and Olympic medallist weightlifter Mirabai Chanu is treading cautiously in search of an elusive Asian Games medal, Commonwealth Games silver…
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Kavya, El Moran and Beast Mode showed out when the horses were exercised here on Wednesday (Sept. 9) morning. Inner sand: 400m: Spotlight (app) 24. Moved fluently. 600m: Starseed (T.S. Jodha), Appalachian (Omkar) 41. Pair easy. Mystica (N. Bhosale) 42. Easy. Yinsiruk (Prasad) 37. Moved well. 800m: Miami Vice (Parmar), South Beach (P. Dhebe) 51,…
Carlos Alcaraz tumbled out of the U.S. Open quarter-finals at 3:34 a.m. Wednesday (September 9, 2026) local time, falling to Ben Shelton in an epic five-set thriller that broke the record for the latest finish ever at Flushing Meadows. The big-hitting American claimed his first career win over Alcaraz, 6-7 (5/7), 6-1, 6-3, 1-6, 7-6…
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