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The Global Chess League is a new team tournament launched by Tech Mahindra in cooperation with FIDE. The first edition will be held in Dubai from 21 June to 2 July.

On Thursday afternoon, the 44th Chess Olympiad opened in Chennai with a magnificent and colourful ceremony. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the guest of honour, formulated the motto of the event: "There are no losers, only winners and future winners." | Photos: Lennart Ootes

The FIDE Rapid and Blitz World Championships cannot take place in Nur Sultan (Kazakhstan) in December as originally planned. Due to the tightened Corona security measures imposed by the Kazakh government, FIDE has cancelled the tournament in Kazakhstan and is currently looking at alternative venues.

6/4/2021 – The Global Women’s Online Chess Challenge "The Queens’ Festival", a series of continental and global women’s online chess tournaments and educative side events, starts on June 11, 2021. Female players from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas will first be able to participate in the Continental Online Blitz Qualification Tournaments and those who qualify will advance to the Queens’ Online Individual and Team Finals. new: Mega Database 2021 ...

€19.95 FIDE Press Release Rustam Kasimdzhanov (UZB) wins the Mikhail Botvinnik Award for the best achievement in Open Section competitions. Kasimdzhanov was a second for former World Champion Viswanathan Anand, whom he helped in the preparation of his WC matches in 2008 against Kramnik, 2010 against Topalov, and 2012 against Gelfand. He was also the trainer of Sergey Karjakin in the Candidates Tournament of 2014, and then of Fabiano Caruana in the Candidates Tournament 2016 a...