August 11, 2022 from Chessdom
Top Chess Engine Championship Season 23 is going to start this August. The defending champion Stockfish is going to compete with 45 of world’s best chess engines for the highest title in computer chess. With the weakest engine in...August 10, 2022 from Chessdom
The 2022 Chess Olympiad team Winners and best individual players were crowned yesterday at the Closing ceremony of the event. The 44th Chess Olympiad was the biggest in numbers, but also the most elegant as FIDE established special...August 10, 2022 from Chessdom
The Minister of Education and Science of Georgia Dr. Mikheil Chkhenkeli was granted an honorary award by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) for his special commitment to promoting Chess in schools. The Award...August 10, 2022 from Chessdom
Legendary Swedish grandmaster Pia Cramling debuted in the Chess Olympiad playing for the Swedish National Team 44 years ago in Buenos Aire, Argentina. Yesterday, she received her third Olympic individual gold as the best Board 1 player...August 10, 2022 from Chessdom
The Chessable British Chess Championships 2022 will be held at the Riviera International Centre in Torquay from 8th to 21st August 2022 inclusive. This will be the 108th British Chess Championship in a series which has run almost...August 10, 2022 from Chessdom
18-year-old Indian Grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi competed for the India A team at the 44th Chess Olympiad. With an impressive score of 8.5/11 points on the third board, Erigaisi was the second best individual player of Board 3 at the...August 10, 2022 from Chess | The Guardian
Central Asian state, seeded 14, wins the 180-nation team event ahead of Armenia and India 2, while Howell’s 7.5/8 total echoes the 1980s The premier team competition in chess, the 180-nation Chennai Olympiad, ended on Tuesday with a...August 9, 2022 from Chessdom
The Closing ceremony of the Chess Olympiad 2022 took place today afternoon in Chennai with awarding ceremony for the team Winners and medalists, best individual players, and grant of the Gaprindashvili cup for the federation with the...August 9, 2022 from Chessdom
Armenia gets the silver medal, while India B, formed by young talents, outpaced its seniors and snatched the bronze History was made in the open section of the FIDE Chess Olympiad, which came to an end this morning in Chennai, India....August 9, 2022 from Chessdom
The 44th Chess Olympiad 2022 concluded today in Chennai, India with the Closing ceremony. The dramatic fights of the final round determined the Winners and medalists: Ukraine won gold medal with better tiebreaks over Georgia...August 9, 2022 from Chessdom
The 44th Chess Olympiad 2022 concluded today in Chennai, India with the Closing ceremony. The exciting final round determined the Winners and medalists: Uzbekistan won gold medal with better tiebreaks over Armenia who finished second,...August 9, 2022 from Chessdom
Altogether with the Winners and medalists of the Chess Olympiad 2022, the best individual players per boards received special prizes and medals at the Closing ceremony of the event. GM Gukesh D won gold medal as the best individual...August 7, 2022 from Chessdom
Take a look, and then take a look again. “Gukesh has serious Wolverine vibes,” says Olimpiu Urcan aka OlimpioDiLuppi. With Gukesh scoring 8,0/8 at the Chess Olympiad and currently playing to make that 9,0/9 one cannot...August 7, 2022 from Chessdom
Oliwia Kiolbasa is currently rocking the Women section of the Chess Olympiad 2022. She has collected 8,0/8 and is going for the fantastic 9,0/9. The game is of high importance for the medals race, as both Poland and India are in...August 7, 2022 from Chessdom
Having collected 8,0/8, Gukesh is now the second strongest Indian player and has officially entered the world top 20 with live rating 2729 ELO. Read about D Gukesh scoring 8,0/8 here. Today he is facing Mamedyarov with the white...August 7, 2022 from Chessdom
Arkady Dvorkovich is re-elected FIDE President! More than 155 federations voted for Dvorkovich’s ticket with Viswanathan Anand as a FIDE Deputy President, Zhu Chen as a FIDE Treasurer, Joran Aulin-Jansson as the FIDE Vice-President...August 7, 2022 from Chessdom
With only three rounds to go at the 2022 Chess Olympiad, Armenia and India successfully keep the sole leadership of the Open and Women’s sections (respectively). The top-board encounter of the Open section will be played between...August 7, 2022 from Chessdom
FIDE Elections and FIDE General Assembly are taking place in Chennai, India, as part of the Chess Olympiad 2022. During the introduction speeches as the FIDE presidential candidate, Bachar Kouatly announced he is withdrawing his...August 7, 2022 from Chessdom
With only three rounds left to be played at the 2022 Chess Olympiad in Chennai, Armenia keeps the sole leadership of the Open section with 15 match points. India 2 and Uzbekistan are just behind, scoring 14 match points. Armenia today...August 7, 2022 from Chessdom
After yesterday’s draw against Ukraine, India’s women’s team maintained the sole leadership of the Women’s Chess Olympiad 2022 with the score of 15 match points. Georgia is in a clear second place with 14 match...August 6, 2022 from Chessdom
From the outside, it’s always very difficult to speculate on what may be happening to the USA team, but it’s clear that they are not going through their best moment. Despite having the best team on paper by quite a margin,...August 6, 2022 from Chessdom
The 8th round of the 44th Chess Olympiad 2022 saw many exciting games and, with only 3 rounds to go, Armenia kept the sole leadership in the event. India maintained the sole leadership in the Women’s tournament with...August 5, 2022 from Chess | The Guardian
Armenia lead after seven of the 11 rounds while six teams are half a point behind. Magnus Carlsen has 5.5/6 but his Norwegian team mates have underperformed. Armenia lead by half a point from six chasing teams after seven of the 11...July 29, 2022 from Chess | The Guardian
The newly retired world champion will aim for a high score at Chennai to boost his chances of reaching the 2900 target which has twice narrowly eluded him Magnus Carlsen, newly retired from world title matches, is in Chennai this weekend...July 24, 2022 from Chess | The Guardian
A chess -playing robot, apparently failing to anticipate the quick responses of a seven-year-old boy, grabbed and broke his opponent's finger during a match at the Moscow Open. The boy’s finger was pinched by the robotic arm for several...July 24, 2022 from Chess | The Guardian
Moscow incident occurred because child ‘violated’ safety rules by taking turn too quickly, says official Played by humans, chess is a game of strategic thinking, calm concentration and patient intellectual endeavour. Violence does not...July 22, 2022 from Chess | The Guardian
The 31-year-old will target a 2900 rating after announcing he will not play Ian Nepomniachtchi in 2023. The Russian and Ding Liren, world Nos 3 and 2, will meet for the vacant crown Magnus Carlsen will not defend his world championship...July 20, 2022 from Chess | The Guardian
Ding Liren will now step up and face Ian Nepomniachtchi ‘I simply feel that I don’t have a lot to gain,’ says world No 1 Magnus Carlsen says he will not defend his World Chess Championship title in 2023 against Russia’s Ian...July 15, 2022 from Chess | The Guardian
Russia are banned, China are absent, the US favourites hope to hold off India, while Ukraine could spring a surprise England hope to medal for the first time since 1990, but will probably have to settle for around their seeded position...July 8, 2022 from Chess | The Guardian
Ahead of ChessFest, shadow chancellor and a seven-year-old enthusiast say the game teaches them to plot and plan Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, and seven-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan have one thing in common: chess has helped them...July 8, 2022 from Chess | The Guardian
Fide has ‘kindly asked’ the world champion to decide by 20 July whether he will defend the crown he has won five times Magnus Carlsen has been “kindly asked” by Fide to decide by a deadline of 20 July, International Chess Day, whether he...July 1, 2022 from Chess | The Guardian
England over-50s, led by Michael Adams and Nigel Short, dominated the world seniors event in Italy England’s over-50 and over-65 teams completed a historic golden double on Wednesday in the world senior championships at Acqui Terme,...June 24, 2022 from Chess | The Guardian
The world champion’s 2018 and 2021 challengers are clear of their rivals, and the Norwegian’s resolve to decline a new series against an opponent from his own generation could soon be tested After six of the 14 rounds at the world...June 17, 2022 from Chess | The Guardian
Entry is free, the prize fund is expected to be at least £1,200, and the winner qualifies for the 2023 world solving championship This week’s puzzle is the opening round of a national contest where Guardian readers traditionally perform...June 10, 2022 from Chess | The Guardian
The world champion kept his narrow lead over Shak Mamedyarov in the final round at Stavanger, while Vishy Anand’s challenge faded when he blundered into a one-move tactic Magnus Carlsen kept his narrow lead over Shak Mamedyarov in Friday...June 3, 2022 from Chess | The Guardian
World champion is aiming to score a fourth successive victory in his home tournament, while a London schoolboy has a chance to qualify as the youngest 2000-rated Expert Magnus Carlsen recovered from a slow start to score a third round...May 27, 2022 from Chess | The Guardian
The Indian 16-year-old beat his rivals with bold attacking play before losing in the $150,000 final to Ding Liren, who knocked out Magnus Carlsen in the semis India’s 16-year-old Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa jumped into the world elite this...May 20, 2022 from Chess | The Guardian
China’s Ding is the new favourite for next month’s Candidates after Alireza Firouzja, 18, failed in Bucharest, and the 29-year-old will play the world No 1 at least once during the Chessable Masters A head to head between the world...May 13, 2022 from Chess | The Guardian
The world champion scored 10/11 online in Chess.com’s weekly masters open, using 1 b2-b3 as White and 1...b7-b6 as Black in all games, while the 18-year-old talent has been uneven against the elite at Bucharest Magnus Carlsen has not...May 6, 2022 from Chess | The Guardian
Talented generation with skills honed by online games capture seven golds, one silver and six bronzes in Euro Schools, World Rapid and World Blitz youth championships England’s chess children claimed a record 14-medal haul last weekend...April 29, 2022 from Chess | The Guardian
The world champion missed a long distance threat and lost three of his seven matches in the Oslo Esports Cup, including Thursday’s final round when victory would have ensured first prize An overambitious schedule, a heavy cold and mental...September 18, 2019 from World Chess Federation - FIDE
The Round 3 tiebreaks were played on September 18. Three matches were decided in rapid games. Peter Svidler (Russia) proved his strength by stopping Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (Germany). In the first game, the Russian GM had no particular...September 17, 2019 from World Chess Federation - FIDE
The return games of round 3 of the FIDE World Cup were played on September 17. None of the players who had lost in the first game managed to level the score today. The tournament’s sensation Kirill Alekseenko (Russia) defeated the...September 16, 2019 from World Chess Federation - FIDE
The game between Ju Wenjun (2576) Alina Kashlinskaya (2487) was a French Winawer with 7. Qg4 Kf8. The World Champion wasted no time on launching the attack on the kingside, as it is the standard plan in this variation. Alina looked for...September 16, 2019 from World Chess Federation - FIDE
The starting games of the Round 3 of FIDE World Cup were played in the Ugra Chess Academy on September 16. Seven encounters resulted in victories. The biggest upset of the day was Kirill Alekseenko's (Russia) beating the higher-rated...September 16, 2019 from World Chess Federation - FIDE
FIDE World Youth Rapid and Blitz Championships (under 14, 16 and 18 years old categories) finished in Salobrena, Spain. 178 players from 22 countries, including 1 GM, 5 IMs, 12 FMs, 1 WIM, 12 WFMs participated in the chess forum in...September 15, 2019 from World Chess Federation - FIDE
The first game to come to an end was the clash between Elisabeth Paethz (2479) and the tournament co-leader Ju Wenjun (2576). The World Champion went for a Petrov defence, and some early exchanges quickly lead to a dull position, in...September 15, 2019 from World Chess Federation - FIDE
Tie-breaks of the Second Round of the FIDE World Cup were played on September 15 in Khanty-Mansiysk. An overwhelming majority of matches ended after rapid chess games. Eltaj Safarli (Azerbaijan) defeated Nihal Sarin (India), Lenier...September 14, 2019 from World Chess Federation - FIDE
The tournament leader Valentina Gunina (2502) was very close to biting the dust in her game against the veteran Pia Cramling (2487). Loyal to her style, the Russian jumped into some sharp tactical skirmishes as soon as she had the...