8/28/2024 – Budapest is set to host the 45th Chess Olympiad from 10 to 23 September at the BOK Csarnok events venue. This year's Olympiad marks a new era, with several significant milestones: it will feature the highest number of participating teams in history, including a record number of women's teams. Notably, Hungary will be represented by three women's teams at this premier global chess event.

8/28/2024 – Four world-class grandmasters met in a Dutch town for a double round-robin tournament. It was dominated by World Champion Anatoly Karpov, who went into the final round with a 1½-point lead and faced the second-placed GM Vlastimil Hort. Karpov won the game – but could Hort have prevented this happening? That's an interesting riddle we want to solve. Can you help us?

8/28/2024 – David Llada is a household name in the world of chess. After working extensively as a chess photographer, he was hired by FIDE as Chief Marketing and Communications Officer. He left the post last year, and only months later asked for permission to work as a photographer for an independent media company (i.e. not FIDE). He was shocked to hear that he would only be granted to work with restrictions, so he refused the offer. In an interview conducted by the Chessdom.com team, he talks about this incident and about his experience as a FIDE employee. | Photo: David Llada's X account

8/27/2024 – Take a look at this position. Looks simple enough – just five pieces on the board. But we are asked to find a clear and forced win for White. That requires some unusually subtle strategic moves. Try and solve it, and two other similarly clever problems, which you are sure to find pleasing. Full video explanations will follow in a week.

8/27/2024 – Alireza Firouzja grabbed his third win of the Sinquefield Cup by beating world champion Ding Liren in Monday's seventh round. Firouzja now has a full-point lead over Fabiano Caruana with 2 rounds to go. One more game ended decisively in round 7, as Nodirbek Abdusattorov got the better of Wesley So with the white pieces. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

8/27/2024 – The German chess community mourns the loss of Gregor Johann. The respected and highly esteemed chess enthusiast, organiser and arbiter died last Friday in an accident during a mountain hike in the Carinthian mountains. He was 55 years old.

8/24/2024 – The first event of the 2024/25 Women's Grand Prix series is taking place on 15-24 August in Tbilisi, Georgia. A 10-player single round-robin, the event has the Muzychuk sisters, Nana Dzagnidze and R Vaishali as the top seeds. The top 2 finishers in the series will qualify for the next edition of the Women's Candidates Tournament. | Follow the action live with expert commentary starting at 13.00 CEST (7.00 ET, 16.30 IST)

8/24/2024 – Hans Niemann and Etienne Bacrot scored 2 wins each (and signed 2 draws) in the rapid section of their match in Paris. Saturday will be the final day of action, with 12 blitz games scheduled to take place - each granting 1 point for the overall score of the match. At this point, Niemann has a 9-point lead over his French opponent. | Photo: Frans Peeters

8/24/2024 – After an eventful day of chess at the Tbilisi Women's Grand Prix, 2 players emerged tied for first place going into Saturday's deciding round. Alina Kahslinskaya beat Lela Javakhishvili to join Bibisara Assaubayeva atop the standings. Importantly, both Assaubayeva and Mariya Muzychuk (who remains in the fight for first place) missed big chances to score full points in the penultimate round. | Photo: FIDE / Anna Shtourman

8/23/2024 – Vladimir Kramnik, known for his strong stance on fair play, took the test to address long-standing rumors and cheating allegations dating back to the 2006 World Chess Championship, as well as more recent accusations in online games. The test, conducted by Pinkerton, revealed “No Deception Indicated” on all key questions, including Kramnik’s role in the controversial “Toiletgate” scandal. Inspired by Kramnik’s example, World Chess is now introducing voluntary polygraph testing as an additional tool to combat cheating.

8/23/2024 – Spilimbergo is a pleasant little town of about 12,000 inhabitants, located about 100 kilometres north-east of Venice. The town is most famous for its over 100-year-old mosaic school - and for chess! The festival was held for the 22nd time this year and attracted 450 participants from 31 countries. Among them was Levy 'Gotham Chess' Rozman, who came to the Italian city to take another step on his way to becoming a grandmaster. In the end, however, the winner of the tournament was the Iranian IM Orimi Mahdi Gholami, who won with 7 out of 9 rating points. Bettina Trabert reports. | Photo: Old town centre of Spilimbergo | Photo: Wikipedia

8/23/2024 – Wesley So joined Alireza Firouzja in the lead of the Sinquefield Cup after beating former co-leader Ian Nepomniachtchi in Thursday's fourth round. So grabbed the full point by converting a minute advantage into a win in a pure rook endgame. Meanwhile, D Gukesh played a few astonishing moves to get an advantage out of a Berlin Defence against Firouzja - the French representative, however, managed to escape with a draw. | Photo: Lennart Ootes