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US Ch: Four lead after Xiong's defeat

Chess News Mar 24, 2019 | 05:40 P

Round four of the US Championships was filled with peculiar episodes that made for an incredible day of chess in Saint Louis. Ray Robson took down sole leader Jeffery Xiong with the black pieces, while Fabiano Caruana and Sam Sevian were not able to make the most of completely winning positions against Leinier Dominguez and Timur Gareyev. In the women's section, Jennifer Yu remains perfect after her opponent blundered on move ten. | Photo: Lennart Ootes / Saint Louis Chess Club

U.S. Championship Round 4

Chess News Mar 23, 2019 | 21:10 P

The U.S. Chess Championship and U.S. Women's Chess Championship will take place for an eleventh time at the Saint Louis Chess Club from March 20th to April 1st. Sam Shankland is the defending US Champion in the Open, and world number two Fabiano Caruana is the top seed. The Women's Championship features Irina Krush as the top ranked player. Live games and commentary from 18:00 UTC (19:00 CET, 14:00 EDT). Official site: USChessChamps.com

European Ch: Four at the top

Chess News Mar 23, 2019 | 17:00 P

Prior to the fifth round 19 players were tied for the first place, all with 3½/4 points and all willing to fight for the title. Maxim Rodshtein (pictured) is the new frontrunner. Boris Gelfand was the only one of those 19 top players in the 50+ category. On the other end of the age spectrum are Semyon Lomasov, Benjamin Gledura and Bogdan-Daniel Deac recently seen fighting for youth titles. Many players with three points were also eager to win, promising an exciting round, though not in all games. SIEGFRIED HORNECKER presents the highlights. | Photo: Patricia Claros Aguilar

FIDE Medical Commission's Chairman Dr Marape Marape attended 2019 WADA's Annual Symposium

World Chess Federation - FIDE Mar 22, 2019 | 11:16 P

Dr Marape Marape, the Chairman of the FIDE Medical Commission, attended the 2019 World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)'s Annual Symposium in Lausanne, Switzerland from 13th to 14th March, 2019. The Symposium brought together close to 900 delegates from the global anti-doping community, representing all the sporting codes and federations for 2 days of presentations, interviews, panel discussions, practical workshops and networking sessions. The symposium focused on the New World Antidoping Code and its associated International Standards Review. Dr Marape also had meetings with WADA representatives where he reiterated FIDE's commitment to continuing to work closely with WADA to ensure that Chess remains free of doping and to continuing FIDE's compliance with all WADA requirements.

US Chess Championships 2019 - Games and Results

The Week in Chess Mar 20, 2019 | 18:38 P

The US Chess Championships take place 20th March (Round 1) to 2nd April 2019. Players:Open: Caruana, So, Nakamura, Dominguez Perez, Shankland, Robson, Xiong, Sevian, Lenderman, Akobian, Liang, Gareyev.Women's Championship:Krush, Zatonskih, Abrahamyan, Wang, Sharevich, Yip, Foisor, Yu, Gorti, Eswaran, Feng, Nguyen.:

20th European Individual Championship 2019 - Games and Results

The Week in Chess Mar 18, 2019 | 15:56 P

The 20th European Individual Championship takes place in Skopje, Mon 18th Marto Fri 29th Mar 2019. Leading players: Artemiev, Tomashevsky, Saric, Kovalev, Dubov, Mamedov, Vallejo Pons, Ragger, Grandelius, Korobov, Cheparinov, Eljanov, Rodshtein, Nisipeanu, Ponomariov, Berkes, Safarli, Dreev, Melkumyan, Kovalenko, Edouard, Parligras, Gelfand, Fressinet, Moiseenko, Kuzubov, Alekseenko, Anton Guijarro, Zvjaginsev, Alekseev etc

1st Prague International Chess Festival 2019 - Games and Results

The Week in Chess Mar 17, 2019 | 15:33 P

The 1st Prague International Chess Festival took place Tue 5th Mar to Sat 16th Mar 2019.There is a strong Masters Group Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Nikita Vitiugov, Radoslaw Wojtaszek,Pentala Harikrishna, Boris Gelfand, Samuel Shankland, Santosh Gujrathi Vidit, David Navara, Richard Rapport and Viktor Laznicka.The Challengers group was also of interest including includesWomen's World Champion Wenjun Ju,Alexei Shirov, young Indian player R PraggnanandhaaDavid Anton Guijarro etcNikita Vitiugov won the Masters with 5.5/9. David Anton Guijarro won the Challengers with 6/9 and Hannes Stefansson won the open with 7.5/9.

List of Q1 2019 Presidential Board Decisions

World Chess Federation - FIDE Mar 13, 2019 | 13:22 P

LIST OF Q1 2019 PRESIDENTIAL BOARD DECISIONS Q1PB-2019/01 To approve the principle of reduction of FIDE fees. Q1PB-2019/02 To approve the signing of the Liability Insurance contract for PB members. Q1PB-2019/03 To approve Baku as the possible organizer of the next Presidential Board. Q1PB-2019/04 To approve the recommendation for the organization for an Extraordinary GA in October 2019. Q1PB-2019/05 To approve a representative of each continent to join the Task Force on the Reform of the FIDE Statutes and FIDE Handbook. Q1PB-2019/06 To approve QC to deal with the transfers of players and to review transfer of players regulations. Q1PB-2019/07 To approve that FIDE keeps using Swiss Accounting Standard as recommended by E&Y and order the management to disclose more information related to the management activities. Q1PB-2019/08 To approve a panel to deal with the financial support to Seniors players and former FIDE Officers. The panel will include Jan Rooze (BEL), Emil Sutovsky (ISR), Mikhail Krasenkow (POL), Willy Iclicki (LIE), Anastasia Sorokina (BLR) and Tahar Batikh (TUN). Q1PB-2019/09 To acknowledge the FIDE President’s decision to finance training and seminars for arbiters, especially for those from Asia and Africa, as well as for female arbiters, from the general Development fund. Q1PB-2019/10[…]

TCEC Season 14 – the 14th Top Chess Engine Championship

Chessdom Mar 12, 2019 | 02:59 P

Written by Guy Haworth and Nelson Hernandez Reading, UK and Maryland, USA Corresponding author: g.haworth@reading.ac.uk This is the latest in our series of analytical articles on past TCEC events. The main text can be read below on this webpage, and at the bottom you will find a link to the full layouted article in pdf [...]

WTCC in Astana Round 5

World Chess Federation - FIDE Mar 9, 2019 | 03:50 P

World Team Chess Championships 2019, held from March, 4 - 15 2019 in Astana, Kazakhstan.Open section and Women section board results.Round 6 starts March, 11 2019 at 3 PM local time. Please visit the official website wteams.astana2019.fide.com for LIVE GAMES. Standings after Round 5. OPEN Rnk.Team12345678910MPPts.1Russia* 2 2½2½3 39132India *2 22 3½ 3½7133England22*2 2½ 2½ 7114United States of America 2* 2½2 13610½5Iran1½2 *1½ 3½ 3511½6China1½2 1½2½* 3½ 5117Kazakhstan1 1½2 *32 49½8Sweden ½ ½ 1*32½47½9Azerbaijan 1½3 ½21* 3810Egypt1½ 11 1½ *05 Standings after Round 5. WOMEN Rnk.Team12345678910MPPts.1China*2½ 2½ 2½2½3½ 1013½2Russia1½* 3½ 33½ 4815½3Ukraine *2 22 347134Georgia1½ 2*23½ 3 6125India ½ 2* 22½ 46116United States of America 2½ *1½33 5107Kazakhstan1½12 22½* 498Armenia1½½ 1½1 * 428½9Hungary½ 11 1 *2½2610Egypt 00 0 01½*01½OPEN SECTION ROUND 66.110Sweden -8United States of America 1GMGrandelius Nils2694:GMSwiercz Dariusz26552GMBlomqvist Erik2488:GMOnischuk Alexander26473GMSmith Axel2487:GMLenderman Aleksandr26374IMJohansson Linus2479:GMIzoria Zviad26036.29Russia -7Azerbaijan 1GMKarjakin Sergey2753:GMNaiditsch Arkadij27102GMNepomniachtchi Ian2771:GMMamedov Rauf27013GMGrischuk Alexander2771:GMSafarli Eltaj26624GMArtemiev Vladislav2736:GMAbasov Nijat26276.31India -6Kazakhstan 1GMAdhiban B.2683:GMJumabayev Rinat26092GMSasikiran Krishnan2678:GMIsmagambetov Anuar25453GMGanguly Surya Shekhar2633:GMKazhgaleyev Murtas25874GMSethuraman S.P.2637:IMMakhnev Denis24766.42Iran -5England 1GMMaghsoodloo Parham2673:GMAdams Michael27082GMIdani Pouya2604:GMMcshane Luke J26613GMTabatabaei M.Amin2600:GMHowell David W L26934GMFirouzja Alireza2657:GMSpeelman Jon S25166.53Egypt -4China 1GMAmin Bassem2709:GMDing Liren28122GMAdly Ahmed2611:GMWei Yi27333IMFawzy Adham2461:GMBu Xiangzhi27314IMAbdelnabbi Imed2435:GMNi Hua2683WOMEN SECTION ROUND 66.110Egypt -8Georgia 1WGMWafa Shahenda2175:GMKhotenashvili Bela24742WIMMoaataz Ayah2036:IMArabidize Meri23923WIMElansary Eman1944:GMBatsiashvili Nino24544WIMEhab Tasneem1841:IMMelia Salome23856.29Kazakhstan -7Hungary 1IMAbdumalik Zhansaya2469:GMHoang Thanh Trang24542IMSaduakassova Dinara2462:IMGara Anita23843FMAssaubayeva Bibisara2374:WGMGara Ticia23244IMNakhbayeva Guliskhan2295:WIMTerbe Julianna23066.31Armenia -6Ukraine 1GMDanielian Elina2402:GMMuzychuk Mariya25602IMMkrtchian Lilit2390:GMMuzychuk Anna25553WFMSargsyan Anna M.2340:IMGaponenko Inna24274WIMGevorgyan Maria2264:IMBuksa Nataliya24166.42Russia -5United States of America 1GMLagno Kateryna2559:WGMAbrahamyan Tatev23772GMGunina Valentina2515:WGMNemcova Katerina23153GMGoryachkina Aleksandra2504:FMYip Carissa22794WGMGirya Olga2456:WCMWu Rochelle21206.53India -4China 1IMKaravade Eesha2357:GMTan Zhongyi25132WGMSoumya Swaminathan2401:IMShen Yang24533IMPadmini Rout2332:WGMHuang Qian24414WGMKulkarni Bhakti2322:GMLei Tingjie2477

TCEC Season 15 – To A/B or NNot to A/B, That is the Question

Chessdom Mar 5, 2019 | 17:14 P

Season 15 of the Top Chess Engine Championship will begin this March 5th at 20:00 CET. It will feature a record number of engines to accommodate the booming sector and a record ELO of the participants. A total of 44 engines will face off in a division based system to determine the current status quo [...]

Allie+Stein, the new neural network based engine entering TCEC S15

Chessdom Mar 2, 2019 | 22:25 P

Three NNs will play in TCEC S15

World Blitz Championships LIVE!

Susan Polgar Global Chess Daily News and Information Dec 30, 2018 | 13:59 P

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PanAm InterCollegiate Chess Championships LIVE with 40 GMs!

Susan Polgar Global Chess Daily News and Information Dec 29, 2018 | 17:00 P

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World Rapid Championships LIVE!

Susan Polgar Global Chess Daily News and Information Dec 27, 2018 | 13:59 P

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