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Chess Newsby Carlos Alberto Colodro1 Sept 2026
Over 150 players meet in Hersonissos The European Senior Team Chess Championships have reached the halfway stage in Hersonissos - located in the north of Crete - with the leading teams closely...
Chess Newsby Carlos Alberto Colodro31 Aug 2026
8/31/2026 – Hikaru Nakamura will face Ferrari Formula One driver Charles Leclerc in a strategy-game challenge in Monza on 1 September, ahead of the Italian Grand Prix.
Chess Newsby Stefan Liebig31 Aug 2026
Pranesh takes first place Pranesh M (right, photo: Lennart Ootes) won the 2026 Kanizsa Open in Nagykanizsa, Hungary. The Indian GM remained unbeaten over nine rounds and scored 7 points.
Chess Newsby Carlos Alberto Colodro31 Aug 2026
2026 Clutch Chess: The Legends Garry Kasparov and Veselin Topalov will meet in September when the two former world champions face each other in Clutch Chess: The Legends at the Saint Louis Chess...
Chess Newsby Martina Gerdts30 Aug 2026
Klaudia Kulon secured tournament victory before the final round. After round eight, she had 7 points, while her closest pursuers were only on 5 and 5½ points.
Chess Newsby ChessBase India30 Aug 2026
From Europe to Sharjah to Dubai Vandan's chess education commenced at age seven in Delhi academies before he began individual training under FM Gurpreet Pal Singh.
Chess Newsby André Schulz29 Aug 2026
8/29/2026 – The Nottingham 1936 tournament, played almost exactly 90 years ago, is regarded as one of the greatest tournaments in chess history. Five world champions took part.
Chess Newsby Jochen Schwarz29 Aug 2026
Andrew Martin is one of my favourite ChessBase authors. I like his excellent, approachable teaching style, as well as the fact that he regularly gives less common openings and variations a chance.
Chess Newsby Frederic Friedel28 Aug 2026
8/28/2026 – In a 15-minute video, Demis Hassabis, one of the central scientists working on artificial intelligence, tells us why he worries about AI going rogue.
Chess Newsby Carlos Alberto Colodro28 Aug 2026
A great year for Pragg Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu overturned a six-point deficit on the final day to defeat Fabiano Caruana 15-13 and win the 2026 Grand Chess Tour Finals.
Chess Newsby Press release28 Aug 2026
Press release by FIDE GM Alan Pichot and IM Marta García Martín emerged as the champions of the 2026 Spanish Absolute and Women's Chess Championships.
Chess Newsby André Schulz26 Aug 2026
8/26/2026 – The BBC has released a 1977 documentary from its archives on YouTube about the then world chess champion, Anatoly Karpov.
Chess Newsby Stefan Liebig26 Aug 2026
The WR Women's Chess Tour 2026 is a new international tournament series for leading female players, comprising four stops on four continents: Asia, the Americas, Africa and Europe.
Chess Newsby ChessBase25 Aug 2026
8/25/2026 – Dear chess friends! This week's Summer Special offers you a real powerhouse: The Fritz 21 and the Fritz Powerbook 2026 are available this week (until August 30, 2026) for €99.90 – save...
Chess Newsby Carlos Alberto Colodro25 Aug 2026
Pragg wins with four games to spare, Caruana protects early lead to emerge victorious Fabiano Caruana and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu will battle for overall victory at the 2026 Grand Chess Tour...
Chess Newsby ChessBase25 Aug 2026
The following tournament information was provided for us by MyChess.Events, a global portal that tracks over-the-board chess tournaments worldwide.
Chess Newsby Stefan Liebig24 Aug 2026
8/24/2026 – Drama in the second game of the semifinals at the Grand Chess Tour Finals: Vincent Keymer had black against Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, and after a relatively quiet opening the position...
Chess Newsby Stefan Liebig23 Aug 2026
Creating exercises from a database In the first part of this tutorial, we explained how to create a training database.
Chess Newsby Sagar Shah22 Aug 2026
On 17 August, at an event in Bengaluru, the Fyers American Gambits unveiled Gerard Piqué as a strategic shareholder of the franchise.
Chess Newsby ChessBase22 Aug 2026
8/22/2026 – The 2026 Grand Chess Tour reaches its concluding event this weekend, with the four highest-ranked full-tour players competing in the GCT Finals at the Saint Louis Chess Club.
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