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Nubairshah Shaikh dominates Biel Chess Festival 2026 WT1, Arun Manukonda second

Top 3
🥇IM Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh🇮🇳 8.5/9
🥈FI Arun Manukonda🇮🇳 8/9
🥉Alexan Floure🇨🇭 6.5/9

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📷Biel International Chess Festival

Sensational Harika Dronavalli clinches double Gold at Asian Rapid and Blitz Women 2026, Double Silver for Goutham Krishna H in Men

Rapid Women
🥇GM Harika Dronavalli🇮🇳 8.5/11
🥈WGM Anna Shukhman 8.5/11
🥉IM Pham Le Thao Nguyen🇻🇳 8/11

Rapid Men
🥇GM Aleksey Grebnev 8.5/11
🥈IM Goutham Krishna H🇮🇳 8.5/11
🥉GM Ilia Iljiushenok 8.5/11

Blitz Women
🥇GM Harika Dronavalli🇮🇳 10.5/13
🥈GM Valentina Gunina 10/13
🥉WGM Umida Omonova🇺🇿 9.5/13

Blitz Men
🥇GM Le Tuan Minh🇻🇳 11/13
🥈IM Goutham Krishna H🇮🇳 11/13
🥉IM Haochen Jiang🇨🇳 9.5/13

📷Various sources

Ilamparthi impressive at Chairman Trophy 4th SRM Rapid Rating Open 2026

Top 3
🥇GM Ilamparthi A R 8.5/9
🥈FM Siddhanth Poonja 8/9
🥉Jayanth Venkatesh 8/9

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📷Directorate of Sports SRM IST Kattankulathur

S Rohith Krishna wins 1st Les Menuires Masters 2026, Raja Rithvik R second

Top 3
🥇GM S Rohith Krishna 🇮🇳 7/9
🥈GM Raja Rithvik R🇮🇳 7/9
🥉GM Artem Omelja🇺🇦 6.5/9

Rohith’s second triumph of the year, three Indians in top five

WGM Mariam Mkrtchyan🇦🇲 scored 6/9, finished ninth overall, earned her second IM-norm and also won the Best Woman first prize.

IM Nisha Mohota🇮🇳 scored 5.5/9, secured 24th place overall and won Best Woman second prize. She mentioned on an instagram post on her profile that she got the highest prize in an open tournament in her career so far.

Another Indian, Deeksh*tha Modipalli🇮🇳 claimed the third prize in the same category scoring 4.5/9.

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📷Échecs club de Corbas Mions

Kevilekho Zumvu clinches 22nd Nagaland State Rating Chess Championship 2026

Top 3
🥇Kevilekho Zumvu 7/8
🥈Salhuto Nyekha 6.5/8
🥉Khrielie Sano 6.5/8

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📷Nagaland Today

Dhanuka Dhunseri Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy felictitates Saiaastha Singh, FM Sarbartho Mani, Eish*ta Lahiry, Anish Sarkar, and Aayan Gupta

Saiaastha Singh
🥇Asian Youth Under-8 Girls Individual 2026
🥈Asian Youth Under-8 Girls Team Classical and Rapid 2026
🥉World Cup Cadets Under-8 Girls 2026

FM Sarbartho Mani
🥈World Cup Cadets Under-10 Open 2026
Crossed 2300 this year and earned FM title

Eish*ta Lahiry
🥇West Bengal State Under-9 Girls 2026
🥉West Bengal State Under-11 Girls 2026

Anish Sarkar
🥈West Bengal State Under-7 Open 2026

Aayan Gupta
🥉West Bengal State Under-11 Open 2026

Saiaastha and Sarbartho were awarded ₹21000 each for their performances at Asian and World stages, Eish*ta, Anish and Aayan were given ₹11000 each as a token of appreciation along with goodies.