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General May 22, 2021 | 1:33 PMby Colin McGourty Gibraltar hosts final Women’s FIDE Grand Prix The FIDE Women’s Grand Prix was supposed to end in Sardinia in May 2020, but then the pandemic intervened. It was rescheduled for Gibraltar, then postponed from January, but it finally begins Saturday May 22nd, with the players competing for two places in this year’s Women’s Candidates Tournament. Aleksandra Goryachkina is uncatchable in first place, but already has a sp...

5/4/2021 – On 1 May the FIDE published the new World Ranking List. Magnus Carlsen (2847) continues to be the worlds number one, followed by Fabiano Caruna (2820) on two. The second half of the Candidates Tournament helped Ding Liren (number 3, 2799) to eight additional rating points while Ian Nepomniachtchi (number 4, 2792) gained three rating points and Anish Giri (number 6, 2780) four. But it was the Iranian Parham Maghsoodloo who made the biggest jump ahead: after convi...

Average rating: 2520 Each team not only has a captain, but three coaches who will help the players over the course of the 5-month tour.  Surya Ganguly  6-time Indian Champion Surya Ganguly has worked on Team Anand for World Chess Championship matches and should have some invaluable advice for his players. You can see him at the end of this short clip from the first pre-tour meeting with the players and coaches. He’ll get to give advice to two young Indian prodigies, Gukesh, who at the age...