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The 2021 FIDE Grand Swiss in Riga, Latvia has featured many exciting new opening ideas and double-edged games, as the world’s best players fight for spots in the World Championship cycle. Canadian FM and opening expert Joshua Doknjas analyzes five interesting games from the first half of the event. | Photo: Mark Livshitz

A group of six players unsuccessfully filed legal proceedings against the Dutch Chess Federation and the municipality of Hoogeveen. The players objected to a requirement at the upcoming Dutch championships to either show a corona pass or otherwise be tested daily, which they claim will disturb them too...

Alexey Sarana (Russia) came out the winner of the Junior U21 Round Table Open Championship

Du 28 août au 5 septembre se déroule le Aimchess US Rapid avec la présence des 2 plus grands joueurs français : Maxime Vachier-Lagrave et Alireza Firouzja.

Van Foreest shocks So but American hits back Dutch destroyer Wesley So in a start to the knockouts that came full of fire. The 22-year-old threw everything at his American opponent and inflicted a crushing 19-move win over him in Game 2. But it was not enough to take the lead as the super-solid So hit back and then kept Van Foreest at bay in the final game - just - to escape Day 1 with a 2-2 draw. Van Foreest and So will go into battle again with everything resting on a one-match shootout and...

€119.90 “Caissa is a jealous mistress” After merely scoring a half point in 9 rounds on Saturday, things kicked off well for Garry Kasparov on the last day of action in Zagreb. The former world champion beat Jorden van Foreest with white in his first game of the day, but went back to his losing ways the very next round. In the end, 2 more draws in the remaining 8 rounds meant he finished the tournament with a 2½/18 score. The self-critical chess legend apologized on Tw...

€199.90 A minute of silence The third event of this year’s Grand Chess Tour started with a minute of silence for the premature passing of Yury Dokhoian, who died last week at the age of 56. Dokhoian was Garry Kasparov’s second for about ten years, until the former world champion’s retirement in 2005. Kasparov, who holds Croatian citizenship since 2014, is in Zagreb, as he will be playing the blitz section of the event throughout the weekend. Kasparov published a heartfe...

The Grand Chess Tour (GCT) has confirmed the field for the Croatia Grand Chess Tour leg that will include four full tour participants and seven wildcards. With legendary World Champions Garry Kasparov and Vishy Anand as well as the World Championship title challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi from Russia the Croatia Grand Chess Tour promises to be action packed. | Pictured: Kasparov and Anand at the 2017 Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz Tournament | Photo: Lennart Ootes

The 58-year-old will play several of the current elite grandmasters at the over-the-board event in Zagreb, Croatia

€29.90 Nostalgia rules I have an old rule, "Do not praise friends in public." This time I am making an exception. ChessBase Magazine has scored a ton and importantly it has survived the pandemic. Both call for a little celebration. Incidentally, I still remember the First Jubilee issue on scoring a 100. The videos were fun. A couple of them are back here with GM Rainer Knaak and  Founder-Editor, Frederic Friedel going down the memory lane.  Sit back and smile, though our Gen...