CEO and Co-Founder, International Master, Chartered Accountant, Fide Trainer
Sagar Shah is the CEO and Co-Founder of ChessBase India. With a rich background in chess as a player and journalist, he covers themes related to competitive sports, sports business, and media, focusing particularly on individual sports and tournaments. He has been featured in ChessBase India and ChessBase GmbH.
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By: Sagar Shah
The next top chess event starts tomorrow, 27th October - it is time for Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown! An insane lineup consisting of Praggnanandhaa, Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana and Javokhir Sindarov will face off each other in 3 days of 15'+10" Rapid Chess at the St. Louis Chess Club.
By: Sagar Shah
Assam has honoured its first Grandmaster! GM Mayank Chakraborty has been selected for the Asom Gaurav Award 2025 for his contribution to chess. The Assam Cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma, approved one of state's highest civilian awards at its meeting on Friday, 23rd of October 2026. The awards will be presented in December.
By: Sagar Shah
Garry Kasparov has said that his criticism of World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju "still stands", but he still gives Gukesh slightly better chances in the upcoming World Championship match against Javokhir Sindarov. The former World Champion spoke at a press conference in Antwerp on 21 October 2026, ahead of a simultaneous exhibition at the KMSKA museum, as reported by
By: Sagar Shah
AMAZING NEWS! INDIA WINS 6 MEDALS IN DEAF CHESS AT MALAYSIA 2026!
The Queen's Gambit Declined is a very solid opening that begins with 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6. Now the most common reply to this is 3.Nc3 and there are many moves that can be played here for Black, but GM Arjun Kalyan, one of the assistant coaches/seconds of the Indian women's team at the Chess Olympiad 2026, recommends the very interesting 3...h6!?
By: Sagar Shah
Timur Turlov was elected FIDE President on 26th September 2026 in Samarkand, succeeding Arkady Dvorkovich.
Photos shared with us from the Getty Center in Los Angeles show a French book of chess problems from the late 1400s, now on display in the museum's exhibition…
Some cities just suit you. For R. Praggnanandhaa, Saint Louis is one of them. In August, Pragg won the Grand Chess Tour Finals in this city. Tonight he is back for the Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown 2026 at the Saint Louis Chess Club, where he faces Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura and Javokhir Sindarov in three days of rapid chess from 27th to 29th October.
The video: Javokhir Sindarov gives himself a 50.1% chance of winning the World Championship match against Gukesh Dommaraju.
By: Sagar Shah
What if the training came first, and the fee was left to the player afterwards? GM Shyam Sundar's Elite Adult Masterclass at Chess Thulir has no
