As an IISER student , do you ever feel ,that u need scholarship but your parents salary is more than the limit mentioned for scholarship , and u are a dropper who had percentage more than required for Inspire and belong to general category.
Won FIDE Women Grandswiss and Qualified to Candidates 2024!🇮🇳
Will be joining my brother in candidates:) @rpragchess
Congrats @viditchess anna!! Great games!
This is Praggnanandhaa and Vaishali Rameshbabu. They just made history.
For the first time ever, 2 siblings will play in the chess candidates tournaments.
There is a chance we may have a brother and a sister as the two World Champions of chess.
Many women are drawn to chess by female role models. The Queen's Gambit Netflix series, based on a female chess player, attracted an unpercedented number of women towards chess. In my opinion, this is absolutely fine. However, I see no reason why women shouldn't be inspired by men, or vice versa.
I was personally drawn to chess by the intrinsic beauty of this game, inspired mostly by male players. I think both men and women should look at the achievements of people of the opposite gender and learn to appreciate them.
This post is my little introduction to a series of articles I'm planning to write about gender issues in chess: what are the differences? What are the systemic problems and how to go about solving them?
I appreciate all your contributions for a better understanding of all these matters.
📸 Above, José Raúl Capablanca, a notably elegant and well-mannered chess champion of outstanding talent. Below, Anya Taylor-Joy, the actress who impersonated Beth Harmon from the Queen's Gambit series.
World no.1 Magnus Carlsen, FIDE World Cup 2023 winner, on his best match at the tournament:
" I think I had by far my best day at the tournament on the first day against Gukesh, which was a game that I really enjoyed...
... I think Gukesh is extremely strong, and he was unlucky to face me on that one day when I really showed my best."
Photo: @photochess