Category: Grandmaster Chess

The 2021 U.S. Open is underway in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, including five invitational events for national championships that got off to a fast start over the weekend - the GM Arnold Denker (Denker) Tournament of High School Champions, the Dewain Barber (Barber) Tournament of Middle School Champions, the WIM Ruth Haring (Haring) National Girls Tournament of Champions, the John D. Rockefeller III (Rockefeller) National Tournament of Elementary School State Champions, and the John T

Title in chess awarded by FIDE Grandmaster (GM) is a title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain. Once achieved, the title is generally held for life, though exceptionally it may be revoked for cheating.

We have all heard the term "grandmaster," but what exactly does it mean?

Chess wunderkind Abhimanyu Mishra has serious moves. And hes only 12.

IM Abhimanyu Mishra became the youngest chess grandmaster in history today. The 12-year-old player from New Jersey scored his third GM norm in Budapest, having already crossed the required 2500 Elo rating barrier

It's often easy to overlook the efforts and sacrifices that go behind making a prodigy achieve success at the highest level. "Gifted athlete" is a term that is often associated to define the athlete's success. When Abhimanyu Mishra became the youngest Grandmaster, breaking a 19-year-old record set by GM Sergey Karjakin, the world rejoiced.

MUMBAI(IANS) After a hiatus of nearly 15 months, Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand will play his first over-the-board chess game in the Croatia Grand Chess Tour Rapid and Blitz tournament in Zagreb on July 6. The tournament will feature 10 elite GMs competing over nine rounds of rapid and 18 rounds of blitz chess. In rapid chess, each player with get 25 minutes to complete the game with 10 second increment time added after each move

The world No. 4 chess player, Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia finished in clear first place in the 2021 FIDE Candidates Tournament, the semifinal of the official World Chess Championship cycle.

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A top ten chess grandmaster has compared the act of watching esports to the act of watching chess.