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The Budapest Gambit pack is now live in AmberChess.

After 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5, Black immediately fights for the initiative and takes White out of familiar territory.

Inside the pack:
⚔️ 600+ annotated positions
♟️ practical plans for Black
🎯 coverage vs 4.Nf3, 4.Bf4, 4.e3 and 4.e4
📚 declined lines included
🔥 train it directly in AmberChess
A little chaos. A lot of initiative.

You can import it for free (1 free pack per user), or help us support AmberChess with $4.

https://t.co/rlVJsoTq4l

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🇺🇸 Sam Sevian wins the Stepan Avagyan Memorial 2026

A strong 10-player field, average rating around 2657, with names like Nihal Sarin, Ray Robson, Artemiev, Aravindh, Sargissian and Donchenko.

Sevian finished on 5.5/9, tied with Artemiev but ahead on Sonneborn-Berger.

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@Rookreviewcom @VincentKeymer04 I suspect this is not an actual quote... But will go and say that, yes, indeed, the chess world championship requires a system to reduce a bit more the effect of statistical variance. These last years we all had the feeling that none of the players were actually the strongest.

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🇺🇦 Anastasiia Hnatyshyn produced one of the standout stories of the 2026 European Women’s Championship.

Starting as the 76th seed, the 15-year-old Ukrainian scored 9/11 to win the title outright. Her tournament included a 6/6 start, a strong recovery after her only loss, and a key penultimate-round win that put her in control before the final day.

Beyond the title, her result earned her the WGM title, an IM norm, and a place in the Women’s World Cup.

A remarkable breakout performance, built on 1.e4 throughout the whole torunament.

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@ChessbaseIndia @UzchessCup If you go ahead 1 sec it gets a bit better

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@El_Divis wow. With 3:27 in the clock, at that level… bad miss

(I feel represented though)

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@SteveChainBuzz But how did he finally manage to develop that c8 bishop?

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@ChessProblem He was temporally happy

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Somebody is feeling happy today...

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🇰🇿 Bibisara Assaubayeva wins Norway Chess Women 2026!

A very solid tournament: 6/10 and first place in one of the strongest women’s events of the year.

Her opening snapshot is also interesting:

As White, she was flexible:
• 1.d4 structures: 3/5
• 1.Nf3: 1/5
• 1.e4: 1/5

As Black, she faced 1.d4 in 4 of her 5 games and replied mostly with King’s Indian setups.

A practical, resilient repertoire for a very important win.

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Confirming the opening hypothesis from Norway Chess Men & Women 2026:

When elite players are strongly incentivized to win, 1.e4 may actually go down .

Small sample, yes. But now large enough to be interesting.

Now the women's torunament snapshot in the same line:

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@VBkramnik By the way, I did and I git blocked. I believe he ist just wrong in this case.

https://t.co/pvovufWAfj

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Hello @VBkramnik I recently shared this mini-study on jospem statistical results in those past Titled Tuesdays. Would it be possible to have your view on it?

In summary, it looks that
1. his performance was very alligned with his online rating and
2. his online rating looks ok compared with his OTB rating

Is there anything I may be missing or getting wrong?

https://t.co/CrgQFjbKwM

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Jospem wins the Bucharest Grand Prix rapid OTB (open tournament vs 581 players)

So here’s the question for @VBkramnik

If strong over-the-board results do not change the perspective on Martínez Alcántara at all, what kind of evidence ever would?

The fight against cheating is important. But admitting when a case looks weak is part of keeping that fight credible

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Thanks. I will try to analyze statistically that performance on TT objectively in the next few days to assess how "feasible" being top 5 that often is realistic.

The Madrid "class of claims" match I did see it almost in full. That brought me to this in first place, because I've followed GM Pepe Cuenca and IM "El Divis" for long (and I feel they are extremely unlikely to conspire against anybody. They're just not that kind of people.).

This may take some time/days though... but I'll hopefully be back with my statistical take on that.

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Hans finally makes it into the Olimpiad. This year will be extremely interesting... USA, India, Uzbekistan (!!)...

Anybody else ? China maybe?

[Hans Niemann @HansMokeNiemann]

Looking forward to the UZ Chess Masters which starts tomorrow. I am also happy to announce that I will also represent the United States of America in the Olympiad later this year in Samarkand! Honored to finally represent my country!

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A first look at the Norway Chess 2026 Open openings under the new scoring system, where wins are heavily rewarded and draws clearly less attractive.

And the first result is… 1.d4 was played more often than 1.e4.

Contrary to the usual “1.e4 is the fighting move” narrative, when elite players really needed to play for a win, they seemed to trust 1.d4 a bit more.

Small sample, of course. But interesting

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🇮🇳 Praggnanandhaa wins Norway Chess 2026!

From last place after Round 6 to tournament champion… with 4 consecutive classical wins to finish the event.

Firouzja. Carlsen. Gukesh. Keymer.

Nice comeback. Nice scoring system. Here goes Pragg's opening snapshot:

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@x3firearms True. It started there, and thanks to that we now know that Hans 1vs1 series are, mostly, a scam for viewers that are told to be watching a serious event and are actually watching basically friendly games.

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The issue is not only whether Nepo accepted the contract.

The promo video showed “$100,000” very clearly to me... Not an Aeroflot rumour. Not a misunderstanding.

Maybe Nepo knew the terms. But the audience was sold a different story.

That is not how you build trust. Not good.

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On more important topics, we have now investigated the second major controversy of the match: Shirtgate.

Hans said Nepo wore “the exact same shirt and hoodie every single day.”

I’m not sure Hans got this one right either... Apparently the hoodie was not there in Day 1

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True, but Hans has just recognised that there was no 100kUSD even if Nepo had won.

As far as I know the real figure has not been published yet (?)

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@TarjeiJS Yep. This is so absurd.

He is one month away from being an statistic outlier because of how often he wins... One bad tournament and Anish Giri is better?

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@NorwayChess Very nice 😂