The World Team Championship continues in Jerusalem (Israel). Such grandmasters as M. Vachier-Lagrave, A. Giri, J. Van Foreest, V. Ivanchuk, A. Shirov, Sh. Mamedyarov, T. Radjabov, H. Niemann, G. Vidit, N. Sarin, R. Voytashek and many others participate in the competitions. Position in group “A”:1. China – 8, 2-3. France, Ukraine – 5, 4. Spain…
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
On November 3, the Austrian Bundesliga started, which will last until April 15, 2023. Such grandmasters as Richard Rapport, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Parham Maghsoodloo, Vladimir Fedoseev, Andrey Esipenko, Kirill Alekseenko, Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Etienne Bacrot and many others will take part in the team competition. Results of the 1st round Official page
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…
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 World Team Chess Championship will be held in Jerusalem (Israel) from November 19 to 26. 12 teams will compete in the tournament. The national teams will be represented by such strong players as R. Wojtaszek, V. Ivanchuk, A. Giri, J. Van Foreest, M. Vachier-Lagrave, G. Vidit, N. Sarin, H. Niemann, A. Shirov, T. Radjabov,…
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….
The first three 1/16 matches took place. The participants play a match of four games with 15+2 control, in case of a draw, the opponents play armageddon. The prize fund is $1,000,000. Match results: Fabiano Caruana – Jose Martinez 2.5 – 1.5 Dmitry Andreikin – Gata Kamsky 3 – 2 (according to the results of…