Alexandra Kosteniuk will play for Switzerland. The Swiss Chess Federation announces the transfer of the 12th World Champion. Kosteniuk will start playing for Switzerland on April 1, 2024. a source
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FIDE has published the rating list for January 1, 2023.Men.World Ten: M. Carlsen 2859, Ding Liren 2811, Y. Nepomniachtchi 2793, A. Firouzja 2785, H. Nakamura 2768, F. Caruana 2766, A. Giri 2764, W. So 2760, V. Anand 2754, S. Karjakin , T.Radjabov – 2747 each. Ten of Russia, including Russians playing for FIDE: Y. Nepomnyashchiy 2793, S….
At the World Blitz Championship in Kazakhstan, the photographer was shooting very close, thereby distracting Kosteniuk during the game. Alexandra lost the game and filed an appeal. Alexandra Kosteniuk: “Thanks to the organizers and congratulations to the winners! I enjoyed the competition until one non-professional photographer ruined my finish. I hope FIDE will do something, and such actions that…
World chess champion Magnus Carlsen has posted a new photo on social networks taken during the opening of the Rapid and Blitz World Championship, which will be held from December 25 to 30. At the ceremony, the organizers offered Carlson to try on a national Kazakh outfit. It was this photo that Magnus shared with…
Chess.com has announced that the 2023 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour and the Chess.com Global Championship will merge into a single series starting on February 6 and lasting all year. The total prize fund of six tournaments and the final is $2,000,000. This is the biggest tournament in the history of Chess.com. New tournament series made possible by…
Chess.com bought the Play Magnus Group, a leader in chess education. The Play Magnus Group brings together popular brands such as the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour tournament series, the Chessable chess learning website, the Chess24 gaming platform, the AimChess chess learning website, the Play Magnus and Magnus Academy apps, Everyman Chess, New In magazine Chess, the…
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The composition of the annual Wake aan Zee super tournament (Netherlands), which will be held on January 13-29, 2023, has become known. Composition: Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Ding Liren (China), Fabiano Caruana (USA), Anish Giri (Netherlands), Wesley So (USA), Richard Rapport (Romania), Levon Aronian (USA), Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland), Dommarju Gukesh (India), Arjun Erigaisi (India), Nodirbek Abdusattorov…
Famous footballers Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi took part in a Louis Vuitton brand photo shoot The chess position is taken from the game of Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura, which was played on June 8, 2017
Slovenian basketball player Luka Doncic, who plays in the NBA for the “Dallas Mavericks”, spoke about his love of chess during a post-match interview. “Have you ever paid attention to the changes taking place on Twitter?” .- the journalist asked. “Changes? No. I only play chess on my phone,” ,- Luka Doncic replied. The 23-year-old…