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Vikram Rao

Chess & Strategy

Vikram covers Indian chess — the Top 10 contenders, FIDE rating cycles, and the psychological and computational shifts reshaping how the country's grandmasters compete.

Illustrated triptych portraits of Indian grandmasters R Praggnanandhaa, D Gukesh, and Arjun Erigaisi with chess pieces and city skylines behind them

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The Illusion of the Cohort

Arjun Erigaisi's solitary place in chess's global Top 10 dismantles the comforting myth of India's "Golden Generation" — and reveals how differently elite players choose to take on risk.

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Illustration of Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa shaking hands with an opponent across the board at the Norway Chess tournament

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The Deconstruction of "Clutch" in the Silicon Age

How a 20-year-old grandmaster's triumph in Oslo exposes the psychological rewiring of chess by a generation raised on neural networks.

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