10/25/2023 – The Candidates Tournament and the Women’s Candidates Tournament will be played simultaneously next year in Toronto. Four spots are still up for grabs in the open event, while three participants remain to be decided among the women. In...
Mixed resultsThe 2024 Tata Steel Masters in Wijk aan Zee once again offered a great chess spectacle. This year, the main focus was on the return of the World Champion, Ding Liren, and the five candidates from Toronto. Ding did not have a good tour...
"Predictions are difficult, especially when they concern the future," is a well-known saying attributed to such diverse personalities as the author George Bernard Shaw, the former English Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the physicist Nils Bohr a...
Press release by FIDE and World Chess The Iconic World Chess Sets will be used at the FIDE Candidates Tournament and the Championship Match; FIDE Continues Collaboration with World Chess on the Chess Sets for 2024-2025. The tradition that has la...
A sixth consecutive victory!The last time Magnus Carlsen played in a tournament and did not emerge as the winner was in November last year, when he played on the top board for Norway at the European Team Championship — Carlsen scored 6½/8 points i...
3/31/2024 – Herman Grooten is an International Master, a renowned trainer and the author of several highly acclaimed books on chess training and strategy. In the 171st episode of his ChessBase show "Understanding before moving" Herman continues hi...
FIDE is proud to announce the second edition of the World Rapid Team Championship, which will this time also include a World Blitz Team Championship. Following the success of the inaugural tournament held in Düsseldorf (Germany) in August 2023, t...
“The situation is becoming really serious,” said a high ranking FIDE official. “It is especially due to computerised openings preparation. We must imagine a situation, in a few years from today, when grandmasters will play the first 25 moves of th...
The FIDE Candidates Tournament 2024 is set to take place in Toronto, Canada, on April 3-23. This event marks a historic occasion as it is the first time the Candidates Tournament will be held in North America (as a round-robin). Another first for ...
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4/2/2024 – The international chess championship "Vladimir Dvorkovich Memorial - Aktobe Open 2024" is scheduled to be staged from May 23 (arrival day) - June 2 (departure), 2024, in the western Kazakh metropolis. The event is dedicated to the memor...
