Sooner or later, chess fans start to wonder who the best player is. Some of them are just curious. Others need an example to strive for. We live in an amazing era. Now we have a Champion who can be called the best – Magnus Carlsen. And not only of our time! There had been…
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Chess.com presented the list of participants of the upcoming Speed Chess Championship. The tournament will be attended by:Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, Dmitry Andreikin, Arjun Erigaisi, Ding Liren, Ian Nepomniachtchi , Nihal Sarin, Anish Giri, Levon Aronian, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Dommaraju Gukesh.The names of two more participants will be announced after the…
The last tournament of this year Meltwater Champions Chess Tour starts in San Francisco. The tournament will be held in a unique hybrid format, four players will compete in San Francisco, and four will play online. composition of participants: M. Carlsen, Jan K. Duda, Wesley So, S. Mamedyarov, Praggnanadhaa R., Arjun Erigaisi, Anish Giri, Liem…
Magnus Carlsen has outlined two conditions under which he can return to the race for the world title. Both conditions relate to the format of the match “It’s not for me to suggest it. But I would like to be given less time to think about moves and to have more games.”
Henrik Carlsen, who is the father and manager of the current world champion Magnus Carlsen, explained why his son refused the title match against Ian Nepomniachtchi. “As for the format, the opening preparation takes so much time and limits the game of classical chess at the highest level so much that Magnus could not help…
How does one identify the world’s top chess players according to FIDE ratings? To answer this quite reasonable question, an American physics professor Arpad Elo invented a special rating calculation system for a 2-player game. FIDE started using Elo’s ratings back in 1970. Since 2012, separate ratings were implemented for rapid and blitz chess. These…
The current world chess champion Magnus Carlsen said that in the future he could take part in a match for the title of the strongest chess player on the planet. “I don’t want to speculate on whether this is possible or not, but I definitely don’t rule out such a possibility in the future. Especially…
FIDE has published a rating of chess players on November 1, 2022. Men, top ten: 1. M. Carlsen (Norway) 2859, 2. Ding Liren (China) 2811, 3. I. Nepomniachtchi (Russia) 2793, 4. A. Firouzja (France) 2785, 5. H. Nakamura 2768, 6. F. Caruana (both – USA) 2766, 7. A. Giri (Netherlands) 2764, 8. W.So (USA) 2760,…
The current world chess champion Magnus Carlsen has confirmed in writing his refusal to participate in the match for the world crown against Ian Nepomniachtchi. “Grandmaster Ding Liren received this weekend the official invitation to take part in the FIDE World Championship match 2023, after the current World Champion Magnus Carlsen formally confirmed, in writing,…
The Fischer World Chess Championship, held from October 25 to October 30 with a prize fund of 400,000$ (1st place — 150,000$), ended in Reykjavik (Iceland). In the final, Hikaru Nakamura beat Ian Nepomniachtchi. The match of the 4th games ended in a draw, but White in Armageddon success was on the side of the…