Norway Chess released a video of 18-year-old Gukesh with a tonsured head, giving it as an offering to Lord Balaji.

D Gukesh, who won the World Chess Championship last year in Singapore after beating Ding Liren, sought blessings at the ...

D Gukesh visited the Tirupati Balaji temple located on Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday, where he tonsured his head and donated his hair as an offering to the Hindu deity Venkateswara, seeking divine ...

The Tirupati Balaji temple has a unique tradition of devotees donating their hair. According to the story, Lord Venkateshwara ...

Indian chess champion D Gukesh has shared his views on freestyle chess, calling it exciting but asserting that classical ...

Five-time world chess champion Viswanathan Anand has long been a source of inspiration for chess players in India.

With two distinct sets of chess enthusiasts emerging -- one supporting freestyle and the other the showing loyality to ...

D Gukesh revealed the early financial struggles faced by his parents, when they were trying to help him succeed in his road ...

Paddy Upton worked as D Gukesh's mental conditioning coach for the World Chess Championship in Singapore last year.

World No 1 Magnus Carlsen, and Gukesh are among the top 12 GMs who have confirmed participation for the Paris leg boasting a ...

Mental conditioning coach Paddy Upton has said that a minor tweak in room temperature helped D Gukesh overcome fatigue on his ...

Gukesh acknowledged that these are “exciting” times for Indian chess, especially with the successes both the men’s and ...