7/16/2024 – Running from July 17 to July 24, the highly anticipated third event of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour will feature the world's top chess players competing for a $300,000 prize pool and a coveted spot in the CCT Finals. Fans can count on the presence of last year's Tour champion GM Magnus Carlsen, chess.com Classic winner Alireza Firouzja and elite GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Wesley So.
7/15/2024 – The 57th Biel Chess Festival kicked off the past weekend, this year extended with a Challengers Tournament. Chess960 and rapid chess were the first events. In the Masters, Armenian GM Haik Martirosyan was the top scorer in the rapid section, while German GM Alexander Donchenko prevailed in the Challengers. | Photo: Biel Chess Festival
7/14/2024 – The third event of the 2024 Grand Chess Tour is the SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia, the second of three speed chess events. The tournament is taking place on July 10-14 in Zagreb. The event starts with 9 rounds of rapid action, followed by 18 rounds of blitz. Included in the field are the next World Championship challenger, Dommaraju Gukesh, and the recent winner of the Superbet Chess Classic, Fabiano Caruana. | Follow the games live with expert commentary starting at 15.00 CEST (9.00 ET, 18.30 IST)
7/10/2024 – The Swedish Championship 2024 featured several categories, from a youth tournament to the Sverigemästarklassen, a round-robin tournament with classical time control for Sweden’s top chess players. The tournament took place in Växjö from June 28 to July 7. GM Vitaly Sivuk defended his national title by obtaining an undefeated 6½/9 score. Jonny Hector, who had won the event in 2022, finished in sole second place a half point behind. | Photos: Lars OA Hedlund
7/8/2024 – Due to urgent family matters, Magnus Carlsen had to cancel his participation in the Superunited Rapid & Blitz Croatia in Zagreb. Levon Aronian is standing in for the world number one. The third stage of the Grand Chess Tour 2024 begins on Wednesday with the blitz tournament.
6/29/2024 – The Global Chess League, a joint initiative between the International Chess Federation and Tech Mahindra, is set for a highly anticipated second edition in London. The 10-day, one-of-a-kind chess league featuring top players will take place at Friends House, located in the heart of central London, from October 3 to 12. Building on the success of its first season, the league aims to further broaden the viewership base through live broadcasts, interactive fan experiences, and community engagement activities.
7/5/2024 – The second event of the 2024 Grand Chess Tour is the Superbet Chess Classic, a 10-player single round-robin taking place from June 26 to July 5 at the Grand Hotel Bucharest. Defending champion Fabiano Caruana is the rating favourite, while Ian Nepomniachtchi and Nodirbek Abdusattorov are the second and third seeds respectively. | Follow the games live with expert commentary, starting at 14.00 CEST (8.00 ET, 17.30 IST)
6/26/2024 – Magnus Carlsen's chess memory never ceases to amaze. At the Casablanca Chess Tournament in May 2024, Carlsen, Vishy Anand and Hikaru Nakamura were shown positions from historically important games and asked to guess the players and dates of the games. The twist: instead of pieces, the three top players saw only black and white checkers. But for Carlsen this seemed to be only a minor obstacle.
6/23/2024 – In celebration of International Chess Day and the FIDE’s 100th anniversary, FIDE invites all chess players in the world to participate in an attempt to set a new Guinness World Record on July 20. All chess players are invited to support the attempt by participating in OTB tournaments or playing online, thus demonstrating the unity and passion of the chess community.
6/22/2024 – The Cairns Cup is taking place on June 13-24 at the World Chess Hall of Fame. Tan Zhongyi, Mariya Muzychuk and Nana Dzagnidze are the top seeds in the 10-player single round robin with a classical time control. The event features one of the strongest female fields, as they compete for a total prize fund of $200,000. | Follow the action live starting at 20.00 CEST (14.00 ET, 23.30 IST)
6/20/2024 – The University of Bologna in Italy was founded in 1088 and is the oldest university in the world. It was at its foundation that the word "Universitas" was first coined. From 14 to 16 June, sixteen universities, including some of the most prestigious in the world (such as Yale, Cambridge and the Sorbonne), took part in the First Alma Mater University Chess Tournament for Teams, held in the most picturesque hall of the University Library in Bologna, the Aula Magna. Eindhoven won, Politecnico di Milano came second. Roberto Mesa reports.
6/16/2024 – Starting July 4, 2024 through July 4, 2029, Jeanne Cairns Sinquefield, co-founder of the Saint Louis Chess Club, will offer the Cairns Chess Queens Award. The Cairns Chess Queens Award is designed to encourage more US female chess players to become Grandmasters. An award of $100,000 for up to five players who earn the GM title will be on offer. | Photo: Lennart Ootes
6/14/2024 – Before the last and final round of the UzChess Masters in Tashkent, Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Nodirbek Yakubboev share the lead with 5.0/8. They are half a point ahead of Yu Yangyi and Alexey Sarana. And as luck would have it, these four meet in the final round: Abdusattorov has White against Sarana, and Yakubboev plays with White against Yu Yangyi. The UzChess Masters is a strong 10-player round robin, in which all players have an Elo rating of 2600+ while eight of the participants have a rating of 2700+. Round 9 starts on Friday at 9.00 CEST (3.00 ET).
6/13/2024 – The prison yard of the Penitentiary Institution Alphen, a city and municipality in the western Netherlands, has undergone a special enhancement: a self-made chess table, crafted by the inmates themselves. This black-and-white checkered table is not only a testament to their craftsmanship but also a contribution to a stimulating environment within the prison. The initiative was inaugurated with a ceremony led by eight-time Dutch chess champion Loek van Wely. | Photo: Shireen Habiballah
6/9/2024 – The Cairns Cup, an elite-level female chess tournament created by the Saint Louis Chess Club, returns this June and will feature ten of the world’s best female chess players. The ten-player round robin tournament will be hosted at the World Chess Hall of Fame from June 12 to 23. The top seeds are Tan Zhongyi, Mariya Muzychuk and Nana Dzagidze, while rising star Alice Lee and defending champion Anna Zatonskih (pictured) are also included in the field. | Photo: Crystal Fuller
6/7/2024 – There are many interesting repertoire suggestions in the Opening Encyclopaedia. You'll have to try them out for yourself to see if they suit you! The best way to do this is to play against Fritz19 using the “Play against database book” function, i.e. you can load databases, games for opening articles and opening analyses directly as an opening book and play against them. Fritz 19 not only displays the very informative articles of the encyclopaedia, with Fritz you can explore the repertoire suggestions in a playful way, against different types of players! See for yourself how you can test Robert Ris' recommendation for the Max Lange Attack in the Two Knights with just a few mouse clicks using Fritz 19.
6/1/2024 – Radosław Wojtaszek and Alina Kashlinskaya, who are husband and wife, won the 2024 edition of the Polish Championships, in the open and the women’s section respectively. Wojtaszek won his sixth national title and is now just one tournament victory short of Wlodzimierz Schmidt’s record. kashlinskaya, on her part, claimed her maiden gold in this prestigious event. | Photo: Michal Walusza
5/31/2024 – Vladimir Fedoseev (photo), Pavel Eljanov and Giga Quaparadze are the three leaders after six rounds of the Munich Open (5 points each). German grandmasters Dmitrij Kollars, Frederik Svane and Marco Baldauf are half a point behind. | Photo: Tournament page
In this video course, kings will play a role of strong and active pieces. We will explore how Kings can be helpful in defence and prophylaxis, or even in attack!
The Triceratops system is an ancient and dependable strategy, requiring White to prepare for only three potential reactions from Black—significantly less work compared to preparing for the Grünfeld and King's Indian defences.
Unlock the excitement of the Beefeater Variation (1.d4 g6 2.c4 Bg7 3.Nc3 c5 4.d5 Bxc3 5.bxc3 f5?!) in this 60-minute video course! Dive into an aggressive and daring strategy where Black gives up the dark-squared bishop early.
2024 Candidates Tournament with analyses by Gukesh, Pragg, Vidit, Firouzja and Giri. Kasimdzhanov, Engel and Marin show opening trends from Toronto in the video. 10 repertoire articles from English to Queen's Indian and much more!
In this video course, experts including Dorian Rogozenco, Mihail Marin, Karsten Müller and Oliver Reeh, examine the games of Boris Spassky. Let them show you which openings Spassky chose to play, where his strength in middlegames were and much more.
In this video course, kings will play a role of strong and active pieces. We will explore how Kings can be helpful in defence and prophylaxis, or even in attack!
The Triceratops system is an ancient and dependable strategy, requiring White to prepare for only three potential reactions from Black—significantly less work compared to preparing for the Grünfeld and King's Indian defences.
Unlock the excitement of the Beefeater Variation (1.d4 g6 2.c4 Bg7 3.Nc3 c5 4.d5 Bxc3 5.bxc3 f5?!) in this 60-minute video course! Dive into an aggressive and daring strategy where Black gives up the dark-squared bishop early.
2024 Candidates Tournament with analyses by Gukesh, Pragg, Vidit, Firouzja and Giri. Kasimdzhanov, Engel and Marin show opening trends from Toronto in the video. 10 repertoire articles from English to Queen's Indian and much more!
In this video course, experts including Dorian Rogozenco, Mihail Marin, Karsten Müller and Oliver Reeh, examine the games of Boris Spassky. Let them show you which openings Spassky chose to play, where his strength in middlegames were and much more.
Knights add irrational content to any position. However, in this video tutorial you will learn how to tame them.
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