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Tina Popli

Tina is a recent graduate of Information Science and Engineering from Bengaluru. Passionate about chess and technology, she believes that a small step taken today can shape into something big tomorrow.

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8-year-old Ashwath Kaushik becomes the youngest ever to beat a GM in classical chess

2/28/2024 – In a world where experience is often said to take the lead, young prodigies are proving it wrong. An 8-year-old boy defeated a grandmaster in classical chess — he is the youngest ever to achieve this feat! This victory over GM Jacek Stopa from Poland marked a significant highlight of the Burgdorfer Stadthaus Open in Switzerland. Tina Popli writes about Ashwath’s remarkable feat and his journey so far. | Photo: David Llada

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One of the major battlegrounds of the Queen’s Gambit Declined is the Catalan, and against it Zwirs chose an ambitious strategy: accept the pawn and hold onto it with …c6 and …b5, aiming for an unbalanced fight from the very start.

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