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chess-news (53)in The Chess Community • last month
Tomorrow the next Chess Freestyle Grand Slam Event starts in Paris!
Dear chess fans, next week it is again chess Freestyle time! Or rather chess960 or Fischerrandom, you name it. And this time the lineup of players is more than…
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chess-news (53)in The Chess Community • 3 months ago
Chess will for the first time join the Esports World Cup 2025!
This is a historic debut! With this step competitive chess will be featured for the very first time in the Esports World Cup (EWC), the world’s largest gaming and esports…
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chess-news (53)in The Chess Community • 3 months ago
Today the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025 begins!
Dear chess fans, not only is today evening round 2 of the Hivechess Season 20 played, but today is also the highly-expected start of the 2025 Chess960/Fischerrandom "Grand…
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chess-news (53)in The Chess Community • 4 months ago
TATA Steel Masters starts on Saturday
Dear chess fans, the first chess super-tournament of 2025 will start in 2 days, at 2pm CET, in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands. These are the 14 players. Format is a single…
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chess-news (53)in The Chess Community • 4 months ago
Magnus played this weekend in the German Bundesliga
Dear chessfans, Magnus Carlson clearly does not like classical chess too much these days, he will also skip the TATA Steel Masters 2025 (which starts this weekend), one of…
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chess-news (53)in The Chess Community • 4 months ago
Magnus Carlsen had to forfeit a game due to not meeting the dress code!
Shocking arbiter decision against the GOAT of chess
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chess-news (53)in #chess • 5 months ago
There is a new chess variant: Random Chess
Dear chess fans, if Fischerrandom (or Chess960 or Freestyle Chess) is still too conventional for you, then you might want to go one step further and try out "Random Chess"! It…
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chess-news (53)in The Chess Community • 5 months ago
Ding Liren surprisingly won the first game in the Chess World Championship!
Reigning Chess World Champion Ding Liren scored his first victory and took an early lead (often the games 1 in WC matches end in draws). In this position Gukesh had to play Be1…
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chess-news (53)in The Chess Community • 5 months ago
On Monday the Chess World Championship will start! Who will win?
The 2024 Chess World Championship will take place in Singapore from November 25 to December 13! Current World Champion Ding Liren from China and challenger Gukesh Dommaraju…
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chess-news (53)in The Chess Community • 6 months ago
The youngest FIDE-rated chess player in history is only 3 years old!
Anish Sarkar from Kolkata, India is just 3 years and 8 months old! He is the youngest player who has a FIDE rating (it is 1555)! This surpasses the record of Tejas Tiwari who…
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chess-news (53)in The Chess Community • 6 months ago
Fischer Random Action coming up in the USA
Hi fans of Chess960, in St. Louis, this Monday 28th Oct., after just having completed the US championship (won by Fabiano Caruana) a socalled "Chess 9LX" round robin rapid…
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chess-news (53)in The Chess Community • 7 months ago
GM Christopher Yoo kicked out from U.S. Championship!
this time it was not about cheating
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chess-news (53)in The Chess Community • 7 months ago
Today the Global Chess League Season 2 starts in London!
The Global Chess League is an over-the-board rapid chess team tournament held in London which features 6 teams and the "strongest line-up of chess players in UK history". Each…
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chess-news (53)in The Chess Community • 7 months ago
FIDE voted against lifting sanctions on Russia and Belarus
At the FIDE General Assembly in Budapest,Yolander Persaud was elected FIDE "Ethics and Disciplinary Commission Chairman". The CVs of the three candidates were given out to the…
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chess-news (53)in The Chess Community • 8 months ago
Karma is a bitch: Magnus lost to a Russian player only hours after his political statement against Russia and Belarus!
Dear chess fans, maybe chess players should just play chess and not touch politics? Magnus Carlsen 2 days ago was awarded a G.O.A.T trophy (greatest player of all time) by…
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chess-news (53)in StemSocial • 8 months ago
Brain surgery sparing chess skills by giving patient chess tasks during surgery!
A team of surgeons recently succeeded in removing a 45-year-old patient’s highly invasive brain tumor, a glioblastoma, while also sparing areas linked to his chess-playing…
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chess-news (53)in The Chess Community • 8 months ago
Stunning resource in the critical match between Austria and Poland
In round 6 of the 45th chess olympiad in Budapest the underdog from Austria at board one (Black) seemed to be in a hopeless position against the Polish no.1, GM Duda. 3 pieces…
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chess-news (53)in The Chess Community • 8 months ago
Vasyl Ivanchuk beat Wesley So!
In round 4 of the Chess Olympiad Vasyl Ivanchuk was able to beat Wesley So (who blundered in in a winning position) and "so" helped to topple the top seeded US team! In this…
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chess-news (53)in CineTV • 8 months ago
The Carlsen-Niemann drama will be featured on Netflix!
Netflix users, watch out! The Carlsen vs. Niemann cheating scandal is confirmed to appear on Netflix in 2025! source Not as a standalone TV-show, but as an episode of…
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stayoutoftherz (79)in The Chess Community • 8 months ago
Hivechess Season 19 is starting this Friday!
Dear chess fans! Finally S19 has arrived! Just 3 days to go! But as always first let´s talk a little about the past season. The prizes from Season 18 were payed out in…
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