Magnus Carlsen (Image credit: Vineet Ramakrishnan/TimesofIndia.com) TimesofIndia.com in PARIS: Lucas had come to watch chess with his family. His wife was there, so was his young daughter and his 11-year-old son, Marius, who has been playing the game for only about a year.By the time they left the Esports World Cup arena at Paris Expo…
Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura has explained what happened during his chaotic third-place match against Alireza Firouzja at the Esports World Cup 2026, after a series of technical problems eventually brought the contest to an unexpected end.Nakamura was competing against his Falcons Esports teammate Firouzja for third place. The match was already close and complicated when multiple…
There is a chessboard on the big screens at the Esports World Cup 2026 in Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, surrounded by the production, noise, and visual language of an event built around competitive gaming. For Mike McCabe, that is not an oddity. It is a glimpse of where esports is heading.Chess was added to…
Orangutan competing in group stage of PMWC at Esports World Cup 2026 GodLike Esports and Orangutan became the first Indian teams to qualify for the PUBG Mobile World Cup (PMWC) Grand Finals at the Esports World Cup 2026 in Paris.The PMWC group stage saw Orangutan and GodLike Esports both securing their places in the finals…
Indian Grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi (PTI Photo) Indian Grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi’s bid to qualify for the Esports World Cup (EWC) 2026 ended in heartbreak as Dutch Grandmaster Benjamin Bok edged him 2-1 in sets in the final of the India Rising: Road to EWC at the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai last Saturday.Bok sealed the…