1/15/2025 – 176 players took part in the International Grandmaster Open in Chennai in the first week of the New Year. Indian GM Inyan PA led the field and went on to win the tournament, beating Deepan, who had been leading the field, in the final round. | Photos: IA R Anantharam

1/15/2025 – The International Dortmund Chess Days will take place from 2 August to 10 August 2025 in the heart of the Ruhr region. The 52nd edition will once again be a chess festival for players of all classes with A-Open and B-Open. In the Open, top German players will compete with international grandmasters for a €20,000 prize fund. The two best German female chess players will play in parallel in an international women's tournament. Elisabeth Pähtz and Dinara Wagner will face 15-year-old Lu Miaoyi, one of the world's greatest young chess talents. | Photos: Dortmunder Schachtage

12/20/2024 – The opening tournament of the 2025 Freestyle Grand Slam Tour begins in WEISSENHAUS on 7 February. The current world champion, Gukesh Dommaraju, will be competing, along with two of his predecessors, Magnus Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand. | Photo: Amruta Mokal

11/15/2024 – In the run-up to the FIDE World Chess Championship at the end of November, where he will play against 18-year-old Dommaraju Gukesh, the reigning World Champion from China, Ding Liren, gave an interview where he spoke about the challenges he faces, both on and off the board. | Photo: Stev Bonhage

10/14/2024 – The WEISSENHAUS Young Masters is a round-robin, in which four young German talents from the WEISSENHAUS Academy (Marius Deuer, Leonardo Costa, Hussain Besou and Christian Glöckler), and Benedict Krause from the Bundesliga club St. Pauli, will compete against Pavel Eljanov, P. Sethuruman, Christian Bauer, Sune Berg Hansen and Kaido Kuluats. | Photo: Marius Deuer, Leonardo Costa, Christian Glöckler and Hussain Besou (from left to right).

10/2/2024 – Freestyle Chess Operations GmbH announced three dates for the upcoming Freestyle Chess Grand Slam. The first tournament will start in February 2025 in Weissenhaus. This will be followed by the second tournament in New York in July and the final tournament in South Africa in December 2025. Magnus Carlsen will play in all three tournaments.

9/26/2024 – During the 45th Chess Olympiad in Budapest, the Women's Commission hosted the "Women & Chess & Balance" conference—a gathering dedicated to exploring how chess can drive gender equality and empower women both on and off the board. The event brought together experts, advocates, and chess professionals from around the globe, tackling the multifaceted challenges women face in the chess world while also offering forward-thinking solutions that extend beyond the game. | Photos: Denis Burko

9/5/2024 – One hundred ninety-seven teams have registered for the open section of the 45th Chess Olympiad in Budapest. With FIDE currently encompassing 201 national federations, the registration numbers fall short by just four federations. As is often the case, not every registered team will make it to Budapest for various reasons. Nevertheless, this Olympiad is set to break participation records.

9/3/2024 – From 20 November to 14 December, the world championship match between world champion Ding Liren and his challenger Dommaraju Gukesh will be held at the Resort World Sentosa in Singapore. 14 games will be played. In the event of a tie, there will be a play-off. The prize fund amounts to 2.5 million dollars. FIDE has now announced the regulations and the exact schedule.

7/17/2024 – The European Chess Union and the Montenegro Chess Federation are inviting all National Chess Federations and eligible players to participate in the European Individual Chess Championship 2024, to be held from 7-20 November in Petrovac, Montenegro. Total prize fund: 100,000 Euros. But even if you don't win, just look at the backdrop of the event.

7/12/2024 – The second season of the Global Chess League will be held at Friends House in London from 3 to 12 October 2024. The six "franchises" of the second edition of the tournament and the companies behind the teams were unveiled in a press release. | Photo: The Triveni Continental Kings, the winners of the Global Chess League 2023

7/11/2024 – From 10th to 18th August 2024 Dortmund will host the Sparkassen Chess Trophy with the strong Sparkassen A-Open and a six-game duel between Elisabeth Pähtz and Dinara Wagner, who will fight for the title of Germany's best female player.

7/10/2024 – The 57th edition of Biel Chess Festival begins this Saturday and will once again attract chess enthusiasts from all over the world to the watchmaking metropolis. There will now be two invitational tournaments for the elite: the GMT-Masters and the GMT-Challengers, which will each be contested by six players. The field of participants will be led by the world number 8, Praggnanandhaa from India. There is also a whole range of tournaments on the programme for amateurs, including a new one-week tournament in the morning and the physicians' tournament. Registrations for the open tournaments are still possible at short notice.

7/9/2024 – Record-breaking nine-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan celebrated her call-up to England’s chess team in a packed Trafalgar Square on Sunday as ChessFest drew its biggest-ever crowd. More than 23,000 people—8,000 more than last year—descended on London’s iconic venue to brave a mixed bag of weather as the UK’s annual free chess event got under way. | Photo: ChessFest

7/5/2024 – The first leg of the 2024-2025 edition of the Women’s Grand Prix is set to start in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, from August 14 to 25. Ten players will participate in the inaugural tournament, including former women’s world champions Alexandra Kosteniuk and Mariya Muzychuk.

7/3/2024 – Once a year the English school chess initiative "Chess in Schools and Communities" organises a chess festival in the heart of London, in Trafalgar Square, which naturally focuses on children and young people. Next Sunday, July 7, is the day again. The theme of this year's ChessFest is the chess fairy tale "Alice Through the Looking Glass".

6/20/2024 – The team from Chessify emerged victorious at the World Corporate Chess Championship organised by FIDE in New York. After an intermediate round, four teams competed for the title in a knockout tournament. In the final, the Chessify team defeated the Chess Mood team. | Photos: Rafał Oleksiewicz

6/18/2024 – FIDE has announced the venue for the 2024 World Rapid and Blitz Championships. The tournament will take place in New York in the last week of December this year. | Photo: FIDE