On December 16, the games of the final, 11th round of the Superfinals of the 73rd Russian Men’s and the 70th Russian Women’s Championships finished at the M. Botvinnik Central […]
After consultation with the players and organizers, FIDE is pleased to announce the resumption of the Candidates tournament. The 8th round has been scheduled for November 1, 2020. According to […]
After a 3-3 tie in the first round, where all six games ended in a draw, the second and decisive match was impacted by a global internet outage, that severely […]
World Champion Magnus Carlsen takes on world blitz no. 1 Hikaru Nakamura today in a 4-game rapid match as the $250,000 Magnus Carlsen Invitational begins. With over the board chess […]
FIDE Standard Ratings, April 2020 (Top 12) # Fed Name Rating Games B-Year 1 NOR Carlsen, Magnus 2863 1 1990 2 USA Caruana, Fabiano 2835 7 1992 3 CHN Ding, […]
France’s Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Russian Ian Nepomniatchi led after seven of the planned 14 rounds, as global body Fide plans a later resumption with points already scored still counting. The […]
Ian Nepomniachtchi won Jerusalem Grand Prix after defeating Wei Yi 1,5-0,5 in the final match. This victory put him on the second place in the overall Grand Prix standings behind […]
The FIDE Grand Prix in Moscow was won by Ian Nepomniachtchi, who defeated his compatriot Alexander Grischuk on Wednesday in the second of two rapid tiebreak games.
The Russian men’s team have won the World Team Championship for the first time since 2013.
Magnus Carlsen won his seventh Tata Steel Chess title after holding a draw against Anish Giri despite all of the latter’s attempts to keep the game going.