7/26/2023 – Before the last day of play, three players still have chances to win the Grandmaster Triathlon in Biel: Vincent Keymer, Le Quang Lieam and David Navara. Thanks to his win over Bassem Amin, Keymer is now back atop the tournament standings. The 18-year-old German stands half a point ahead of Le and 2½ points ahead of Navara. | Photos: Official website

7/25/2023 – The closing ceremony of the Women’s World Championship match was held at the grand hall of the Changshou District Office Service Centre, the same venue where just two days earlier, Ju Wenjun defeated challenger Lei Tingjie in the crucial twelfth game of the match. “There are many memorable moments, and this is one of them”, said the world champion. | Photo: Stev Bonhage / FIDE

7/25/2023 – Melikset Khachiyan and Alice Lee won the US Senior US Girls’ Championship with a round, which meant only one champion remained to be decided in Saint Louis. Going into the Junior Championship’s final round, Arthur Guo and Abhimanyu were tied for first place. Guo lost his game in the final round, allowing Abhimanyu to be crowned as the national champion in his category. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

7/25/2023 – From 26th to 28th of August 2023, the German city of Düsseldorf will host a unique competition — the first World Team Rapid Chess Championship, organized by FIDE in partnership with WR Logistics GmbH. 43 teams from all over the world will compete for a €250,000 prize fund, and the best team will receive the first prize of €100,000. Participants include former world champions Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, Hou Yifan, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Mariya Muzychuk, as well as Ian Nepomniachtchi, Fabiano Caruana, Boris Gelfand, Levon Aronian, Peter Svidler, Jan-Krzysztof Duda Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Daniil Dubov.

7/25/2023 – Endings with opposite coloured bishops have large drawish tendencies. But in the diagram position it is White to move and win. What should he do?

7/25/2023 – Defending champion Le Quang Liem took the lead at the Grandmaster Triathlon in after convincingly beating top seed Yu Yangyi with the black pieces. Le was the top scorer in classical chess last year, and is again impressing in that discipline this time around. The Vietnamese grandmaster has won four out of five classical games so far, two of them with the black pieces. | Photos: Official website

7/22/2023 – The game of chess can be used as an incredible tool for empowerment and opportunity globally. Unfortunately, due to a lack of chess sets, the communities that could benefit the most from chess do not have access to the game. That is why the organisation Gift of Chess celebrated International Chess Day, sharing their commitment to distribute 1,000,000 chess sets globally by 2030. Susan Namangale, the global head of the organisation, tells us about herself and about the plan.

7/22/2023 – In the diagram position Black played 26...Qe2? and in the actual game he got away with it - but you would not let that go unpunished, would you?

7/22/2023 – The new sole leader of the Grandmaster Triathlon in Biel is Vincent Keymer. The youngest participant in the competition beat top seed Yu Yangyi and was thus able to leave former co-leader Navara behind in the standings. The latter signed his third consecutive draw, this time against Bogdan-Daniel Deac. Le Quang Liem climbed to third place after beating Arjun Erigaisi. | Photos: Official website

7/22/2023 – Ju Wenjun claimed her fourth Women’s World Champion title after clinching a crucial victory in the decisive, final, 12th game of the match against challenger Lei Tingjie. With this victory, Ju has now equalled the record set by her compatriot Hou Yifan, both having won the world crown four times. Apart from defending the title, Ju also won €300,000 in prize money, while €200,000 went to the runner-up Lei Tingjie.

7/21/2023 – Ju Wenjun and Lei Tingjie seem to be heading to a playoff at the Women’s World Championship in China. Game 11 saw the contenders for the title signing the ninth draw of the match, which remains tied with one game to go. The twelfth and last classical game of the contest will be played on Saturday. | Photos: Stev Bonhage / FIDE

7/21/2023 – On Thursday, the strong Isbank Turkish Super League, Turkey’s team championship, came to an end in Ankara. The Turkish Airline Sports Club topped the standings. The best player on board one was Dommaraju Gukesh, who climbed to eleventh place in the live elite ratings list and became the youngest-ever player to cross the 2750-mark. | Photos: Turkish Chess Federation