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The US Team won the 2023 FIDE World Chess Championship 50+ in Struga, N. Macedonia on the heels of a 4–0 sweep of Poland in the last round on Thursday, September 28. Full results are available here.
After six rounds of the 2023 FIDE World Senior Team Championships, team USA leads the 50-and-over section with five wins and one draw, while German team Germany Lasker Schachstiftung GK leads the 65-and-over section with a perfect 6–0–0 score.
The 2023 FIDE World Senior Team Championships begun today in Struga, North Macedonia, with both a 50-and-over (50+) section and a 65-and-over (65+) section. The tournament format is a nine-round swiss, with each round consisting of four-player matches played at a classical time control of 40 moves in 90 minutes with an additional 30 minutes on move 40 and a 30-second increment beginning on move one. 48 teams are competing overall, with 22 in the 50+ and 26 in the 65+.
From Friday, 6 January, to Sunday, 8 January, the 32nd Keres Memorial was held in the Estonian capital Tallinn and featured a blitz and a rapid tournament. GM Vitaliy Bernadskiy from Ukraine won the blitz, GM Yuriy Kuzubov (also from Ukraine) won the rapid event.
In honor of the 44th Chess Olympiad, we at Chess.com asked the question: If you could put every country's best five players ever on the same team, how good would those teams be? Now there are many arguments, and not just in chess, about how good players of the past really are. But for this article, we...
FIDE distributes an additional €35,000 among chess seniors fide.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from fide.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
What Russia Taught The World About Chess Written by Alexey Zakharov In the last hundred or so years, Russia became almost synonymous with chess. The country in its many incarnations—Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and now “just” Russia—produced more grandmasters and world champions than any other, and its players enriched the ancient game immensely. So, let’s now delve (shallowly, and then, of course, more and more deeply) into what Russia and its predecessor states brought to the world of chess. Long, Tongue-Twisting Names It’s more of a joke entry, of course, but GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, the new challenger to GM Magnus Carlsen, is only the latest in the long, distinguished line of Russian and Soviet players who look like an absolutely insurmountable wall of letters when written in English, such as Roman Dzindzichashvili, Zurab Azmaiparashvili, Elena Fatalibekova, Alexander Konstantinopolsky, Olga Semenova-Tyan-Shanskaya, Alexander Ilyin-Zhenevsky, and Fyodor Dus-Chotimirsky.
In memory of Vasily Smyslov on the 100th anniversary of his birth fide.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from fide.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Digging the Queen's Gambit long before 'The Queen's Gambit' Follow Us Question of the Day Chess players were into the Queen’s Gambit long before “The Queen’s Gambit.” The runaway Netflix hit may have made chess cool this year (at least for a little while), but the Queen’s Gambit — accepted, declined or counter-gambited — has been opening royalty since at least the late 19th century. Around 1. d4 d5 2. c4 has grown a a rich thicket of options for both players, including the Slav and the Semi-Slav, the Meran and the Anti-Meran, lines named for Siegbert Tarrasch, Emanuel Lasker, Savielly Tartakower, Nicolas Rossolimo and variations honoring London, Vienna and Cambridge Springs, Pa.