Chess at the Spanish Pavilion – Chessbase News
The Spanish pavilion at the Expo is built around the motto "Intelligence for Life".
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2021 FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championship: All The Information – Chess.com
The 2021 World Rapid & Blitz Championship and Women's Rapid & Blitz Championship are elite events organized by FIDE to determine the best players in fast time controls in the world. The championship gathers national champions and grandmaster-level players from around the globe to compete in two Swiss tournaments for their piece of the $1,000,000.00 prize fund.
Continue ReadingLindores Abbey Blitz – Live! – Chessbase News
In honour of the 85th anniversary of the birth of the 8th World Chess Champion Mikhail Tal, FIDE isendorsingthe Lindores Abbey Blitz Tournament, which istakingplace on November 8 in the historical Hanzas Perons venue in Riga, Latvia.
Continue ReadingChess: Firouzja, 18, becomes third youngest world title candidate after Carlsen and Fischer – Financial Times
Alireza Firouzja, the teenage grandmaster who quit his native Iran for France due to Tehrans policyof punishing players who met Israeli opponents, scored his greatest success yet last weekend when the 18-year-old won the 108-player Fide world Grand Swiss in Riga. Firouzja qualified for the eight-player 2022 Candidates tournament whose winner will play for the global crown later next year. He becomes the third youngest Candidate ever, after Bobby Fischer and Magnus Carlsen at 15 in 1958 and 2005, and a few weeks younger than Boris Spassky in 1955.
Continue ReadingStockfish can crush you at chess even more efficiently in the 14.1 update – Neowin
The team behind the Stockfish chess engine has announced the release of Stockfish 14.1. The update comes almost four months after the previous stable release and improves the engines Elo rating by 17 points and wins three times more game pairs than it loses
Continue ReadingAzerbaijani chess players take 11th, 13th among TOP-100 in the world – Trend News Agency
BAKU, Azerbaijan, Oct. 31 Trend: The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has updated its ranking of the Top 100 chess players in the world, Trend reports. The first place in the rating with 2,855 points was taken by the Norwegian Magnus Carlsen, the second place with 2,799 points - the Chinese Ding Liren, and the third - the American Fabiano Caruana (2,791 points).
Continue ReadingMonarchs and ubersprogs – Chessbase News
[Note that Jon Speelman also looks at the content of the article in video format, here embedded at the end of the article.] A week or so ago, in Westminster Abbey, Queen Elizabeth II was seen in public for the first time ever with a walking stick. It was an iconic moment though hardly surprising, since with a reign which began in 1953 shes recently widowed and 95. Chess kings and queenshave much shorter reigns than real monarchs years or decades at the very most
Continue ReadingGame of the Week 484: Giri vs Carlsen – Chessbase News
The Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals 2021 were won by world champion Magnus Carlsen, mainly because he started the event with a significant lead in points gained in the earlier events.
Continue ReadingDaniel King’s Power Play Show: Tactics from the Chessable Masters and the genius of Magnus Carlsen – Chessbase News
And here's another entertaining mate in two: Power Play 28: Tactic Toolbox King's Gambit Daniel King presents 50 puzzle positions in video format, all arising from the King's Gambit. They feature typical tactics from the opening, so this is a great way of becoming familiar with the tricks and traps that you can set your opponent. Youll find older broadcastsin thePower Playcategory.
Continue ReadingMagnus Carlsen moves forward in the Chess World Cup, but …
The $ 1.9 million ( 1.38 million) World Cup of 206 in Sochi has so far been the graveyard of the Top 10 Grandmasters, seizing the opportunity for a herd of teenage talent to boost their reputation. Im out. After three rounds, the number of original applicants was reduced to 32, and the worlds elite representatives were beaten and decimated.
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