Amit Kamath
Sports Writer at The Indian Express
Cover sports @ Indian Express. Ex-News9, Firstpost, HT, mid-day Robert Bosch Media Ambassador. Red Ink awardee. Covered Tokyo2020, Birmingham2022. Liver donor.
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1 week ago |
indianexpress.com | Amit Kamath
“Every tournament proves that all the rumours about the death of classical chess have been greatly overestimated,” Garry Kasparov, the 13th classical world champion of chess, had said in his trademark drawl during the Superbet Chess Classic last month. In the month since Kasparov said this in Bucharest, events that have transpired in the sport, particularly at the Norway Chess tournament, have fallen neatly in line to validate the declaration.
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1 week ago |
indianexpress.com | Amit Kamath
Two years ago, Yatin Sarbalia and his then nine-year-old son Aarav embarked on a unique Euro trip. In a three-month phase, the father and son duo traversed country lines, going from Spain to France to Hungary before finally ending in Norway then flying back to India. Unlike a sightseeing tour of traditional European delights, this was a chess trip. Aarav had flown to Europe with his chess rating around 1400, and when he came back, it had touched 2000 after playing in five tournaments.
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2 weeks ago |
indianexpress.com | Amit Kamath
A giant two-dimensional portrait of Erling Haaland bears down on the indoor football turf at Bryne FK, the local football club that takes its name from the humble town of Bryne — a place in southwest Norway with a population of around 12,500. They call this training turf the ‘ice box’ around these parts, an ironic nickname for a place that’s become a safe refuge for their football teams when the weather gets too unrelenting in the winter months.
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2 weeks ago |
indianexpress.com | Amit Kamath
In May last year, Magnus Carlsen, the best chess player of this generation, posted a photo of himself where the Norwegian is standing in front of a pool, against a backdrop of pure blue sky, wearing a T-shirt and shorts. It’s a perfect day to be in the pool. But instead, world no 1 Carlsen has a book in hand called Understanding Rook Endgames.
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2 weeks ago |
indianexpress.com | Amit Kamath
Magnus Carlsen is not ending his classical career. At least not right away. Carlsen said he was ‘on the fence’ about quitting the most traditional format of the sport. This comes on the back of the world no 1 suggesting more than once that he was considering not playing classical chess at all. “I don’t think I will be playing a lot (of classical chess), but I am also not guaranteeing that I’m never playing a classical tournament again. I might be back here next year.
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