The tournament within the framework of the Russian Cup 2022 continues in St. Petersburg. After 4 rounds, Nikitenko M, Stribuk A, Lavazik D, Alexandrov A, Fedorov A, Vorobyov E are in the lead — 4 each. Dates: from 22 to 30 October System: Swiss, 9 rounds Prize fund: 1,375,000 rubles Composition: 150 participants, 14 grandmasters…
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The tournament continues in Skopje (North Macedonia). A. Demchenko, V. Rasulov, L. Draskovich are in the lead — 6 each; S. Drazic, N. Djukic, T. Lazov, O. Korneev — 5.5 each; 11 participants are half a point behind. Dates: from October 21 to 27 System: Swiss, 9 rounds Prize fund: 9000€ (1st place – 2800€)…
The traditional weekly online tournament “Titled-Tuesday”, held on the gaming platform, has ended “Chess.com “. 417 players with international titles took part in the tournament with a prize fund of $ 5,000. The victory was won by American grandmaster Sam Shankland, with a score of 10 points out of 11. In second place is Jose…
Levon Aronian suggested that Elon Musk talk about music in a similar way as about chess: “12 notes, the same for everyone, a limited number of harmonies, only major and minor keys…”
Monaco hosted the first round of the 1/4 semi – finals of the tournament of contenders for the world championship in group A. Koneru Hampi – Muzychuk Anna 1-0Lei Tingjie – Muzychuk Maria 1-0 Dates: from October 24 – November 6 Prize fund : €70,000 official source
1st roundAbdusattorov 2:0 NepomniachchiCarlsen 1.5:0.5 FedoseevBluembaum 0.5:1.5 NakamuraGretarsson 0.5:1.5 Co Round 2Nepomnyashchy 2 : 0 GretarssonCo 0.5 : 1.5 AbdusattarovFedoseev1.5 : 0.5 BluembaumCarlsen 0.5 : 1.5 Nakamura The composition of group “A”: Wesley So (USA), Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzbekistan), Jan Nepomniachchi (Russia), Hjervar Stein Gretarsson (Iceland) The composition of group “B”: Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Hikaru Nakamura…
Grandmaster Harika Dronavalli participated in the podcast of Tilly Khan and Michael Busse dedicated to the “Year of Women in Chess”. podcast
The tournament continues in Bangkok (Thailand). The leaders are G. Nasuta – 4; 13 participants are half a point behind, including grandmasters Tari Aryan, Vaibhav Suri, Melkumyan Grant Dates: from 22 to October 30 System: Swiss, 9 rounds Composition: 144 participants, 16 grandmasters position after round 4 official source
One of the Twitter users asked the billionaire engineer: “Do you play chess yourself?” “I played as a child,” he explained, “but it seemed to me then that the game was too simple to be useful in real life: a simple 8—by—8 grid, no fog of war, a technological tree, a random map, positions of…
One of the richest people on the planet, Elon Musk, reacted to the harsh remarks of Garry Kasparov, which he expressed on an American TV channel. In particular, the 13th world champion condemned ambiguous political views on the situation in Ukraine. “Although Kasparov plays chess almost as well as my iPhone, otherwise he is an…