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The Chess Community
2025-08-15 10:55
Vincent Keymer won the Chennai Masters 2025 with 7 out of 9!
Dear chessfans, Vincent Keymer won also his last game against Ray Robson and thus dominated this years Chennai Masters with a spectacular performance! 5 wins and 4 draws - not bad with these opponents!
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The Chess Community
2025-04-06 16:23
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 impressive! 8 from the current top 10 players
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The Chess Community
2025-02-19 10:45
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 festival. The event will take
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The Chess Community
2025-02-07 10:52
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 Slam" Tour, or
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The Chess Community
2025-01-16 15:22
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 round-robin (so all 14 players play
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The Chess Community
2025-01-14 16:57
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 the most prestigious tournaments.
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The Chess Community
2024-12-27 23:45
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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2024-12-21 10:18
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 is with normal
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The Chess Community
2024-11-25 17:34
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 to keep the balance, after
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The Chess Community
2024-11-22 09:59
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 from India will face each other
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The Chess Community
2024-11-05 11:28
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 was five when he got his first
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The Chess Community
2024-10-24 23:15
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 tournament is starting:
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The Chess Community
2024-10-17 18:05
GM Christopher Yoo kicked out from U.S. Championship!
this time it was not about cheating
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The Chess Community
2024-10-03 11:44
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 of these 6 teams
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The Chess Community
2024-09-27 22:51
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 delegates less
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The Chess Community
2024-09-21 11:14
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 FIDE and in a little speech he
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StemSocial
2024-09-20 08:03
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 skills! The patient had asked
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The Chess Community
2024-09-17 22:10
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 are hanging at the same time
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The Chess Community
2024-09-15 10:03
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 position Ivanchuck
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CineTV
2024-09-13 17:43
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 the "Untold" project, which
