The organizers of Tata Steel Chess announced the name of the third participant of the annual super tournament in the Netherlands. It will be the American grandmaster Wesley So.Earlier it became known that the Indians Arjun Erigaisi and Dommaraju Gukesh will take part in the competition. Official page
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A curious incident happened yesterday at the Fischer World Chess Championship in Reykjavik. In one of the games against Ian Nepomniachtchi, the American grandmaster Wesley So, the king was under the check. He decided to castling anyway, although according to the rules of chess, castling is impossible in such a situation. The judges explained this…
American grandmaster Hans Niemann sued Magnus Carlsen, Chess. com, Daniel Rench, Hikaru Nakamura, Play.Magnus. The grandmaster demands an amount of at least 100 million US dollars for the damage to his reputation. official source
During the game at the U.S. Championship in St. Louis, opponent Samuel Sevyan took the king during the Neman move, broke the upper part of the piece and returned it to the board, but on a different square video
The matches of the contenders for the Women’s World Cup will be held in Khiva (Uzbekistan) from November 28 to December 11. This was reported by FIDE in a letter to Alexandra Kostenyuk.
Hikaru Nakamura gave pleasure to usual amatuers having played some parties in the park Toronto
Teenager Dommaraju Gukesh in hard fight won Magnus Carlsen on online tournament Aimchess Rapid, Meltwater Champions Tour. So indian Gukesh in age 16 became the youngest chess player, who won Carlsen as a World Champion link
The UR (universal rating, taking into account performances in all competitions – classic, rapid and blitz) for October 2022 has been published. World Ten: Carlsen (Norway) 2846, Nakamura (USA) 2805, Firouzja (France) 2801, Ding Liren (China) 2800, Nepomniachtchi (Russia) 2789, So 2784, Caruana (both US) 2780, Vachier-Lagrave (France) 2775, Duda (Poland) 2766, Aronian (USA) 2764….
World Chess Plc, a commercial partner of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), plans to conduct an initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange and thus raise up to 8 million euros. Its shares will start trading in November under the ticker CHSS. The number of shares to be placed and their price are not…
FIDE Council voting approval of the proposal presented by its President, Arkady Dvorkovich. The full list of members and positions will be as follows: Chairman of the Management BoardFIDE President, Mr Arkady Dvorkovich Deputy Chair of the Management BoardMrs Dana Reizniece-Ozola Board Members: FIDE Deputy PresidentMr Viswanathan Anand FIDE TreasurerMrs Zhu Chen FIDE Chief Executive…