The world's top juniors, Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus 🇹🇷 and Alice Lee 🇺🇸, are showing great results so far at the #ChessOlympiad, scoring 4.5/5 and 5.5/6 respectively.
For Yagiz, it is especially remarkable since his declared chess goal "to reach ELO 2900" matches his current tournament performance rating of 2924, and he is already World #18 on the live rating list among all players! https://t.co/KzasjT2F9L
📸 Michal Walusza, Rafal Oleksiewicz / FIDE
Congrats to Nino Batsiashvili on winning a record-tying 5th Georgian Women's National Championship w/ a round to spare! 🇬🇪🥳
She still probably needs a bit more rating to qualify for the Women's Grand Prix, but the +12 so far definitely helps!
https://t.co/dB6XIEGDB5
📷: სჭფ
Boris Spassky aurait eu 89 ans aujourd’hui.
♟️ Champion du monde de 1969 à 1972, légende des échecs, il fut bien plus que le héros malheureux du « Match du Siècle » face à Bobby Fischer.
Spassky rappelait quelque peu le guerrier-philosophe, cultivé et patriote, pétri de paradoxes et de contradictions, avec un humour redoutable et parfois un sourire carnassier devant l’échiquier. Une forte personnalité, courageuse, capable de dresser des ponts entre le « monde libre » et le bloc de l’Est. Un homme de dialogue à contre-courant du monde clivant dans lequel nous vivons.
Il est l’un des derniers dont l’aura reposait, à son apogée, sur des qualités essentiellement humaines, une puissante connaissance du jeu, une imagination fertile en milieu de partie dont le style fut qualifié bientôt d’universel.
👉 https://t.co/grx87v5OpY
♟️ The FIDE Candidates Tournament 2026 is getting closer! 🔥
Here’s what you need to know:
🗓 Dates: March 29-April 16, 2026
🌍 Location: Cap St Georges Hotel & Resort, Cyprus 🇨🇾
🎟️ Book your tickets now:
🔗 https://t.co/DNuR9CpipA
#FIDECandidates#Cyprus#FIDE#Chess
Congrats to Amina Kairbekova on earning her 3rd and final IM norm on the heels of her 20th birthday! 🇰🇿😀🥳🥳🥳
She's now also up to 2379 (!) and just needs to reach 2400 to earn the IM title!
https://t.co/ZbI1SOtSZ4
📷: KCF
Congratulations to GM Manuel Petrosyan and Anahit Mkrtchyan on winning the Armenian Championships! 🇦🇲♟️
Petrosyan claims his second national title, while Mkrtchyan secures her first, earning the right to represent Armenia internationally.
Read the full article here 👉 https://t.co/ln9YrPRSap
First name confirmed for the Norway Chess 2026 lineup 🔥♟️
None other than Magnus Carlsen 🇳🇴 - the World No. 1.
Since the tournament began in 2013, he has played every single edition, the only player to do so, and has already claimed seven Norway Chess titles.
World No. 1 since July 2011, Magnus is a 5-time World Champion in classical chess, the reigning 6-time World Rapid Champion, and the reigning 9-time World Blitz Champion. A total of 20 World Titles 🤯🏆
Will he claim his eighth Norway Chess title this year?
When? 🗓️ May 25–June 5, 2026
Where? 📍 Deichman Bjørvika, Oslo
📷 Norway Chess / Tor Nilssen & Kjetil V. Tveito
#NorwayChess
Praggnanandhaa had 14 seconds on clock - he was thinking to promote his pawn to a Queen. Pragg got lost in thoughts and when the clock reached 1 second, he picked the rook (as he couldn't find the queen). As he saw he could lose on time, he paused the clock.
While the arbiter came and the situation was discussed, Wesley quickly analyzed position and generously offered draw to Pragg! What a gem of a gesture from the American grandmaster.
He could have easily bagged the full point asking Pragg to promote in one second and continue the game. It was very likely that Pragg would not have been able to promote the pawn and would have lost on time. But Wesley saw the position was around even and offered a draw!
Photos: Vivek Sohani
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#Monaco will host the European Women's Rapid and Blitz #Chess Championship from 8 to 12 January, with a new participation record of 154 players from 32 European federations. The participation lists: https://t.co/6kQ7ft9TvK
Parallel to the Championship, Monaco will host the 1st quarter ECU Board meeting on 10 January.
👍 Inaugural Pia Cramling Cup and DGT Board Operator Seminar successfully held in Stockholm
The FIDE Commission for Women’s Chess was proud to co-organize the first-ever Pia Cramling Cup and the DGT Board Operator Certification Seminar, which took place in Stockholm, Sweden, alongside the prestigious and long-standing Rilton Cup.
Read more: https://t.co/Rr7RLGJf9R
@FideWomen 👏
En esta Olimpiada Rusia alcanzó el 2do lugar (28 pts), mientras que las chinas ocupaban el 3er puesto (27 1/2 pts), ambas fueron superadas en la tabla final por las potentes ucranianas (29 1/2 pts) representadas por: Zhukova, Lahno, Yanovska-Gaponenko y Ushenina.
Dos poderosísimas escuadras se enfrentan en la Olimpiada de #Ajedrez Turín 2006:
Rusia con Alexandra Kosteniuk (2540), Tatiana Kosintseva (2489) y Ekaterina Kovalevskaya (2460) se medía con China, quien estaba representada por Xue Zhao (2423), Yang Shen (2411) y Yifan Hou (2298)
El resultado final de este encuentro fue la división: 1 1/2 a 1 1/2, donde en el primer tablero se firmaron las tablas, mientras que Rusia vencía en el 2do y China se imponía en el 3er tablero.
In just 2 days from now, India's premier Rapid and Blitz Chess tournament will kick off in Kolkata - it's time for the Tata Steel Chess India Rapid and Blitz from 7th-11th January!
There will be 2 events as usual with the same prize fund- Open and Women's. Here's the amazing lineup of both of the tournaments:
Open section:
@vishy64theking Anand
Wesley So
Wei Yi
R. Praggnanandhaa
Arjun Erigaisi
Volodar Murzin
Hans Niemann
Vidit Gujrathi
Aravindh Chithambaram
Nihal Sarin
Women's section:
Aleksandra Goryachkina
Kateryna Lagno
Divya Deshmukh
R. Vaishali
Nana Dzagnidze
@HarikaDronavali@carissayipchess
Stavroula Tsolakidou
Vantika Agrawal
@RakshittaRavi
The Champion of the Rapid event wins USD 10,000, while the Blitz Champion will bag USD 7500. There will be 3 days of 15+10 Rapid Chess (9 rounds total) followed by 18 rounds of 3+2 Blitz Chess across the last 2 days.
Who do you think will become the Champions of the 7th edition of Tata Steel Chess India Rapid and Blitz? Let us know in the comments.
Graphic: Anmol Bhargav
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