After the overwhelming success of the first-ever online chess Olympiad in 2020, FIDE is back with the second edition this August. The event kicked off on 20th August with pools of 12 teams each and will conclude on the 15th of September.
7 Integral Rules of Chess You Can't Afford to Miss
Learning how to move the pieces around on a chessboard may sound exciting. But when it comes to competitive chess, you must not merely get familiar with every rule, but master those indispensable moves to ensure a win. A lack of deep knowledge and practice of these could land you in trouble even in a possible winning situation.
Berlin voted the chess capital for the year 2022; will host the Grand Prix 2022 Series
The prize fund for each event is EUR 150,000, which is a EUR 20,000 increase from 2019. Three events will comprise the 2022 Grand Prix, set to happen between February and April of next year. Each event of the Grand Prix will consist of a round-robin group stage followed by a knockout stage. The total prize fund for the Grand Prix is €350,000, with €150,000 for each event.
World Chess Championships: The Indian Saga
As India’s No.3 Vidit Gujrathi bowed off, losing the battle to Poland’s Jan-Krzystof Duda in the quarterfinals, the Indian challenge came to an end in the FIDE Chess World Cup 2021. Though another World Chess Champion title coming home seems a far-fetched dream now, India has a glorious past to look back and swell over.
Vidit Gujrathi Enters the Quarter Finals of FIDE Chess World Cup 2021
Abhimanyu Mishra: A Rendezvous with Determination
Abhimanyu Mishra, became the world's youngest chess grandmaster in June 2021 at the age of 12 years, 4 months and 25 days, breaking the 19-year-old record of Sergey Karjakin in Budapest. Karjakin, who had played against Magnus Carlsen in the world championship in 2016, earned his title at the age of 12 years and 7 months.
Moves Beyond the Board: A Retrospective on International Chess Day
The chess world celebrated the International Chess Day on the 20th of July. With the newfound glamour and attention the sport received during the past year thanks to the online boom and Netflix’s Queen's Gambit, netizens over the globe hit the social media with chess quotes, funny memes, greetings and messages.
Revolutionary Design Concepts in Chess: The chess set that lights up!
No-Castling Chess: The New Chess Variant
Come July, and Dortmund in Germany will swing back to its mood, getting ready for the Sparkassen Chess Trophy or the “Dortmunder Schachtage” as it is originally referred to. A decades-old tradition of the City, the annual chess festival bounces back from the pandemic slump with an added flavour: It will be chess sans Castling!
Tani Adewumi: The Miracle Boy of Chess
BEAT FUNMASTER MIKE! THE MINDMENTORZ EDITION
Mind Mentorz Kids Gearing Up to Beat FunMaster Mike!
FunMaster Mike of chesskid.com teams up with Mind Mentorz - Bengaluru’s premium chess coaching institute - for a session of fun-filled, hands-on game experience for its young players.
CHESS GOES PUBLIC: URBAN CHESS IN THE NETHERLANDS
It was a Moment de Gloire for the Netherlands as it got to witness the face-off between two of its brilliant talents at the grand finals of the Tata Steel Chess 2021 at Wijk aan Zee. For the Dutch soil, it ain’t new to celebrate chess.
With grandmasters like Max Euwe, Jim Timman, and the current No.1 Anish Giri, chess is prestigious for the ‘Netherlanders’ which is all the more accentuated by a new wave of “urban chess”. An innovative initiative by Jesus Medina is opening the Dutch schaakwereld (chess world) to urban public spaces in the Netherlands.
A Boy Called Praggnanandhaa
The new Julius Baer Challengers Chess that kicked off on April 8 2021 gave India a goosebump as its young prodigy Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa won the maiden event title with eight wins in a row.
Praggnanandhaa isn’t a new name for India or even the chess world to get excited over. The 15 year old prodigy from Chennai has already been rated as “another Anand in the making” by the chess kingdom.
Arjun Erigaisi to join the Champions Chess Tour, Better Platforms for India’s Young Talents
Cheating in Online Chess: Scandals in Black and White
As the pandemic has propelled online chess to newer heights, so has it fuelled cheating online in the game. The latest rumour concerns FIDE’s online University Tournament where 19 players got disqualified including the winner, a former women’s champion from Ukraine.
Women and Chess: On Pride and Prejudices
Thanks to the new Julius Baer Challenger’s Chess Tour from the Play Magnus Group, Women’s chess is getting a much-needed and delayed facelift. With Judit Polgar – a powerful female name in the chessworld - at the helm (along with ex-world champion Vladimir Kramnik), the best of the young female talents is sure to emerge out of the mist in 2021.
Anish Giri Wins the Magnus Carlsen Invitational
Julius Baer Challengers Chess Tour: Digging for the NextGen Gold
While the most-watched online chess event, the Play Magnus Group’s Meltwater Champions Chess Tournament 2021, has won much attention worldwide, yet another online tour is getting ready for the launch. The Chess legends Judit Polgar and Vladimir Kramnik come together to join hands with the Play Magnus Group for a fresh new online tour. The elite tour is designed with a focus to advance gender equality in chess and ensure female participation as well as to coach and promote upcoming young players.
The Magnus Carlsen Invitational: Breaking Through Newer Frontiers
The Magnus Carlsen Invitational, the Fourth event of the Champions Chess Tour, will be held on March 13-21. The World Champion has teamed up with Breakthrough Initiatives to commemorate the 60th anniversary of man’s first flight to outer space. The organisation that is driven by a quest for investigating the fundamentals of life beyond Earth is funded by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, headed by philanthropists and tech investors Yuri and Julia Milner.