Alexei Barsov News Today

The Covid pandemic in the last two years have led to a chess boom online, and the young guns have benefited the most from having ‘extra time’ on hand due to being at home a lot throughout the years 2020 and 2021. They seem to have done well to widen their learnings of the game, making large gains on the rating scale. Edwin Lam Choong Wai, chess enthusiast and coach, has a suggestion how FIDE should handle this. We would be interested to hear you opinion on the subject.

A three-member Sri Lankan Team will take part in the Asian Zonal Hybrid Chess Championship 2021, which will commence the Tornelo platform today.This is also the preliminary event for the FIDE World Chess Cup 2021 for the South Asian region.Top competitors from Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Maldives, Bhutan and Sri Lanka will compete in this event for supremacy.Susal de SilvaThis year the event is conducted by the Bangladesh Chess Federation and...