/PRNewswire/ The World Chess Hall of Fame (WCHOF), the leading chess cultural center in the country, announces two, all-new exhibitions – Pawns & Passports:.
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Young Stars May Training Session
School is out in most of the country, and the chess world is back in full force. Tournaments are happening online and offline around the World, and our Young Stars are training hard to be prepared for them. The latest training session happened on May 24th and 25th via Zoom.
The Kasparov Chess Foundation (KCF) and the Saint Louis Chess Club have been running the very successful Young Stars – Team USA program since 2011. Team USA’s program has helped develop several American chess prodigies from across the country, including the likes of GM Jeffery Xiong and GM Sam Sevian. Team USA has been capped off with individualized training sessions with Kasparov’s coaching staff and special training sessions with Garry Kasparov himself.
The Grand Chess Tour is back - and the tour begins on Thursday, 3 June 2021 with an over-the-board classical tournament in Bukarest. Ten top players take part, the top seeds are Fabiano Caruana, Levon Aronian, Anish Giri, Alexander Grischuk, and Wesley So. After the end of the tournament on 15 June, the players travel to Paris to take part in a Rapid & Blitz tournament.
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 spot in the Candidates. The leaders in the race are Humpy Koneru and Alexandra Kosteniuk, but neither plays, so that most of the field in Gibraltar is in with a chance.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Chess grandmaster Levon Aronian said on Friday he was leaving Armenia and would represent the United States, citing what he said was Armenian officials’ indifference to chess as one of the reasons.
The 38-year-old, who is ranked sixth in the world, announced his decision on his Facebook page.
“The past year has been very difficult for all of us with a pandemic, a war and in my case there was personal adversity and the state’s absolute indifference towards Armenian chess,” he wrote, referring to six weeks of fighting between ethnic Armenian and Azeri forces over the Nagorno-Karabkah enclave.