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How communities of urban Indians are ditching the screen to bond over board games
2+ hour, 43+ min ago (841+ words) When Akshit Shrivastava, a 32-year-old teaching fellow, moved to Chandigarh from Bengaluru a few years ago, he noticed something missing. "Gaming hadn't really caught on here," he recalls. "Nothing much was happening, and I wanted to build something constructive." "The…...
Gukesh says fears about cheating in chess are overblown, rejects Kramnik’s crusade
1+ week, 5+ day ago (460+ words) Prague, Feb 25 (PTI) Cheating in chess is being portrayed as a bigger problem than what it actually is, says world champion D Gukesh, who does not support Russian Grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik's controversial crusade against the menace that affects the online…...