Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi will face each other over the board. The Altibox Norway Chess super tournament begins in Stavanger on the 7th of September. Six grandmasters will play […]
The second event of the 2021 Grand Chess Tour, the Paris Rapid & Blitz, finished in the capital of France. On June 22, the participants played the final part of […]
A duel with Magnus Carlsen is scheduled for November-December 2021. PhosAgro Group, a Russian vertically integrated company and one of the world’s leading manufacturers of phosphorus-containing fertilizers, has become Russian […]
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won the FIDE Candidates Tournament with a round to spare. The 30-year-old Russian grandmaster will now play GM Magnus Carlsen for the world championship in November. While Nepomniachtchi drew his game with GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, his […]
The Candidates Tournament resumed with a “bang”, as the latest challenger to the world championship title, Fabiano Caruana from the US, took down the leader of the tournament, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. […]
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, […]