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
In Paris, the most romantic city in the world, Magnus Carlsen has fallen in love again. With chess. Carlsen declared so himself. Right after he had defeated one-time arch-nemesis Hikaru Nakamura in the final of the Paris leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour on Sunday. The sport had seemed to constantly cause him bitterness over the last few years. The man known to fight till the last pawn on the board had started to pick up plenty of fights off the board.
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1 week ago |
indianexpress.com | Amit Kamath
Arjun Erigaisi pocketed a cool $50,000 (approximately Rs 43 lakh) after ending fifth at the Paris leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour on Monday. Arjun defeated Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the playoff for the fifth spot after defeating Ian Nepomniachtchi in the previous classification game. Arjun had lost to Hikaru Nakamura in the quarter-finals. Nakamura lost in the final on Monday to world no 1 Magnus Carlsen, who took home $200,000 (approximately Rs 1.7 crore) for finishing on top in Paris.
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1 week ago |
indianexpress.com | Amit Kamath
It was a move that made the jaws of elite grandmasters drop and Ian Nepomniachtchi’s heart rate spike. With one flick of the wrist, Arjun Erigaisi had thrown a Hail Mary on the board that made his opponent ponder for 17 minutes about a response. And even after that prolonged period of thought, the Russian ended up making a blunder with his reply.
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1 week ago |
indianexpress.com | Amit Kamath
For nearly an hour on Wednesday, Hikaru Nakamura had the overpowering urge to strangle Ian Nepomniachtchi. The American and the Russian grandmaster were not actually paired to face each other in the quarter-finals of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour’s Paris event — Nakamura was jousting with India’s Arjun Erigaisi, while Nepomniachtchi was parrying off attacks from Germany’s Vincent Keymer.
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1 week ago |
indianexpress.com | Amit Kamath
The next event of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour will have some radical changes in place, thanks to Magnus Carlsen and his father Henric Carlsen. Jan Henric Buettner, the man behind the Freestyle Chess tour, revealed on the official broadcast of Freestyle Chess Tour on Friday that the next event will see 45-minute games with a 10-second increment per move rather than a 90-minute game with 30-second increment that we saw at Paris in the ongoing event.
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Some radical changes coming to #FreestyleChess from the next event. Games will be shorter. Event will be shorter. Plenty more 👇👇
Next event will see 45-minute games with a 10-second increment per move rather than a 90-minute game with 30-second increment. By @jestalt https://t.co/WKXFhzn3Po
Top guys from the iconic #NorwayChess event are in Mumbai at the moment trying to explore the possibility of having a Norway Chess event in India next year. The regular Norway Chess will not be interrupted if this happens. But there will be a different event, I report for Express
This year's edition will see Carlsen face Gukesh in classical chess for the first time after the 18-year-old became the world champion By @jestalt https://t.co/Wxi4Pz3o5D
RT @IExpressSports: Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour, Paris Gukesh finally wins a freestyle game; Arjun Erigaisi takes down Carlsen and Car…