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Special Students watch telecast of India’s Gukesh Dommaraju competing against China’s Ding Liren during FIDE World Chess Championship.

How Chennai turned India into a chess powerhouse

  • World’s youngest chess champion Gukesh Dommaraju is from Chennai
  • One school chain, Velammal Nexus, has helped produce 22 Indian grandmasters
By Sanjay Kumar ·