Tournament-favorites Russia defeated the Ukraine 2.5-1.5 and 3-1 in the two rounds of the semifinals to score a 2-0 win by match points to reach the finals of the World Women's Team Championship being held at Sitges, Spain. In the other semifina...
Russia and Georgia reached the semifinals of the 2021 World Women's Team Championship with solid performances, while India and Ukraine overcame their rivals in varying levels of difficulty and drama during the quarterfinals. While India's victory ...
Azerbaijan and FIDE Americas qualified to the knockout stage of the World Women's Team Championship from their respective pools in contrasting fashion after an eventful fifth and final round of the Round-Robin stage of the tournament. Russia and G...
After the first day of the 2021 FIDE World Women Team Championship at Sitges, it was no doubt that Russia was the dominant force of Pool A, while Pool B looked like a comparatively open race for all teams. The second day of the event was expected ...
The 2021 FIDE World Women Team Championship kicked off at Sitges, Spain on Monday, September 27, with favorite Russia showing brilliant form. The team scored the maximum 4 match points after the first two rounds in Pool-A. Known as "Jewel on the M...
The second event of the Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix on September 25 with an individual prize fund of $11,000 saw GM Jeffery Xiong beat GM Aleksandr Shimanov in a dramatic final after Russian GM Sanan Sjugirov won the initial Swiss part of ...
GM Nihal Sarin prevailed over GM Amin Tabatabaei with a score of 23.5 - 4.5 in the last remaining quarterfinal match of the Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid. Sarin scored an identical 7-2 crush in both the 5|1 and 3|1 segments...
