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Juniors make up nearly half the field, including a nine-year-old top seed, while in Kolkata Magnus Carlsen surged to victory in the Tata Steel Rapid Finals of the annual UK Blitz Championships take place in Leamington Spa on Saturday...November 8, 2024 from Chess | The Guardian
England has been the most successful nation in senior events, but competition has become stiffer in Europe, while the US has won the world over-50 teams two years running England’s success in senior events has been outstanding in recent...November 1, 2024 from Chess | The Guardian
The former world champion scored 4.5/9 in the 9LX tournament and also revealed new details about his 1997 match with the IBM Deep Blue supercomputer Garry Kasparov, who many consider the all-time No 1 in competition with Bobby Fischer...October 25, 2024 from Chess | The Guardian
Caruana showed his clear superiority in the open event at St Louis, while Carissa Yip won her first eight games in the women’s championship Fabiano Caruana, the world No 2, retained his national title on Wednesday when he scored an...October 18, 2024 from Chess | The Guardian
The Birmingham amateur achieved his title in Norway after years of trying, while Jonah Willow, 21, became the latest from the young generation to score a GM norm Ameet Ghasi became England’s 42nd and latest grandmaster last weekend when...October 11, 2024 from Chess | The Guardian
The world No 1 lost to Firouzja in round two and although he won the return game, his team failed to reach the final, in which Triveni Continental Kings face PBG Alaskan Knights The world No 1, Magnus Carlsen, has had a rare sub-par...October 6, 2024 from Chess | The Guardian
The football-mad world No 1 is in London playing for a $1m prize fund and despite dominating the chess world says he has never played the perfect game One small measure of how Magnus Carlsen has made chess cool came on Thursday...October 4, 2024 from Chess | The Guardian
Eight of the world top 12 are competing in the Global Chess League at Friends House, Euston, from 3-12 October, with spectator tickets bookable online There is a unique opportunity to watch the world elite in action in London this week....September 27, 2024 from Chess | The Guardian
India won the Open and Women’s Olympiads in Budapest, while for the first time in history no European team reached the podium in either event India’s domination of the 188-team Budapest Olympiad was complete. Their winning Open score of...September 20, 2024 from Chess | The Guardian
With three rounds to go, India have won all eight of their matches in Budapest without loss of a game, while the top seeded US team is fifth and England 17th India are fast becoming the clear No 1 nation of world chess, with a dominance...September 13, 2024 from Chess | The Guardian
The world No 1 will lead Norway at the event in Hungary shortly after defeating Hans Niemann and Alireza Firouzja at the speed championship finals in Paris Magnus Carlsen, the world No 1, competes for one of the few missing honours...September 6, 2024 from Chess | The Guardian
An incredible collection of photographs documenting the intersection of chess and culture is published by FUEL, in the year FIDE (the International Chess Federation) celebrates its 100th anniversary. Artists, actors, musicians and more...September 6, 2024 from Chess | The Guardian
The London schoolboy defeated three GMs in successive games in Budapest and narrowly failed to achieve a world age record 2300 and a Fide Master title Ethan Pang, the nine-year-old London schoolboy who, in June , set a new world mark as...August 30, 2024 from Chess | The Guardian
The Iran-born Frenchman, 21, scored 6/9 to win in St Louis, half a point clear of the US champion and world No 3, Fabiano Caruana Alireza Firouzja, the Iran-born Frenchman, is a rekindled talent after the 21-year-old triumphed unbeaten...August 23, 2024 from Chess | The Guardian
The pair will meet early next month for the first time across the board since the 2022 Sinquefield Cup, where their game sparked cheating allegations and a $100 million lawsuit Magnus Carlsen, no longer the world champion but still...August 16, 2024 from Chess | The Guardian
The ambitious American leads narrowly after six games in his five-day match against the England No 1, Nikita Vitiugov, which includes classical, rapid and blitz sections Hans Niemann, the controversial US 21-year-old, is in London this...August 9, 2024 from Chess | The Guardian
Have you been watching the football, athletics, golf, basketball, hockey, wrestling, canoeing, cricket and rugby? • World records quiz: who went highest and longst? Continue reading...August 9, 2024 from Chess | The Guardian
The world No 1 arrived at the World Team Rapid and Blitz jetlagged and lost to Richard Rapport but then beat the world champion Since abdicating his world crown last year, Norway’s world champion, Magnus Carlsen, has appeared at a...August 5, 2024 from Chess | The Guardian
Shreyas Royal, whose family was granted visa after appeal by Rachel Reeves, aspires to become world chess champion by 21 A 15-year-old chess prodigy has become the youngest British grandmaster. Shreyas Royal achieved the prestigious...August 2, 2024 from Chess | The Guardian
The Turkish teen is poised to achieve the landmark rating at September’s 193-nation chess Olympiad in Budapest Yagiz Erdogmus is not yet a name in the same league as the quartet of Indian and Uzbek teenagers who have stormed into chess’s...September 4, 2023 from Chessdom
The league stage of the Top Chess Engine Championship (Season 25) reaches the pinnacle of the event – the Premier Division. The defending champion Stockfish will meet its main competitor Leela Chess Zero, as well as six more of the...September 3, 2023 from Chessdom
FIFA World Cup 2022 is about to start in Qatar and Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi chose to prepare for the event by playing a chess game. “Victory is a State of Mind“, wrote Ronaldo on his twitter account and shared the...September 3, 2023 from Chessdom
Ian Nepomniachtchi vs Ding Liren, aka Nepo – Ding is the final of the World Chess Championship 2023. The Nepo – Ding match will take place in Astana, Kazakhstan, from April 7 to May 1, at the elegant St. Regis Astana hotel....August 31, 2023 from Chessdom
Wesley So – Alireza Firouzja is a semifinal game from Julius Baer Generation Cup Div 1 WinnersThe Julius Baer Generation Cup, the 5th event on the $2 million 2023 Champions Chess Tour, features three Divisions of 8, 16 and 32...August 31, 2023 from Chessdom
Fabiano Caruana – Magnus Carlsen is a semifinal game from Julius Baer Generation Cup Div 1 WinnersThe Julius Baer Generation Cup, the 5th event on the $2 million 2023 Champions Chess Tour, features three Divisions of 8, 16 and 32...August 31, 2023 from Chessdom
Pavel Eljanov – Nodirbek Abdusattorov is a Round 1 game from Julius Baer Generation Cup Div 1 Losers.The Julius Baer Generation Cup, the 5th event on the $2 million 2023 Champions Chess Tour, features three Divisions of 8, 16 and...August 31, 2023 from Chessdom
M. Amin Tabatabaei – Denis Lazavik is a Round 1 game from Julius Baer Generation Cup Div 1 Losers. The Julius Baer Generation Cup, the 5th event on the $2 million 2023 Champions Chess Tour, features three Divisions of 8, 16 and 32...August 31, 2023 from Chessdom
The Julius Baer Generation Cup, the 5th event on the $2 million 2023 Champions Chess Tour, features three Divisions of 8, 16 and 32 players. Each division is a double-elimination knockout where if you lose one match you drop down to a...August 31, 2023 from Chessdom
The Julius Baer Generation Cup, the 5th event on the $2 million 2023 Champions Chess Tour, features three Divisions of 8, 16 and 32 players. Each division is a double-elimination knockout where if you lose one match you drop down to a...August 30, 2023 from Chessdom
The Julius Baer Generation Cup, the 5th event on the $2 million 2023 Champions Chess Tour, features three Divisions of 8, 16 and 32 players. Each division is a double-elimination knockout where if you lose one match you drop down to a...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...September 14, 2019 from World Chess Federation - FIDE
Second games of the Second Round of the World Cup were played on September 14 in Khanty-Mansiysk. Three players won their matches with two wins: Sergey Karjakin (Russia), Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland), and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)....March 8, 2019 from World Chess Federation - FIDE
World Team Chess Championships 2019, held from March, 4 - 15 2019 in Astana, Kazakhstan. Open section and Women section board results. Round 5 starts March, 9 2019 at 3 PM local time. Please visit the official website ...