Ding Liren, ranked number three in the world by FIDE (2789), took home the World Chess Champion-ship title to China for the first time ever on the last day of April, to the satisfaction of over one billion Chinese residents.
The Candidates Tourna-ment has been organised by FIDE, chess’s international governing body, since 1950, as the final contest to determine the challenger for the World Championship.
The highest ranking chess grandmaster ever to visit Guyana, England’s Nigel David Short, MBE, paid a four-day visit to these shores last week and competed against 20 simultaneous boards successfully without losing or drawing a game.
In 1979, there was a strong grandmaster chess tournament in Munich in which Dr Helmut Pfleger, a grandmaster himself, sought to monitor the heart rates of players.
A total of 17 Special Education teachers met at the David Rose Special School in West Ruimveldt on Friday, February 3 to compete in a grand chess tournament.
Director of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) Irshad Mohamad was appointed recently to serve as vice-president after that post became vacant when Anand Raghunauth, who was vice president, assumed the presidency.
The Tata Steel Chess Tournament, which ends today in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, drew five participants in the world’s top ten, according to the International Chess Federation (FIDE) rating system.
Twelve years ago on January 17, Netherlands paramount chess grandmaster Anish Giri vanquished Norway’s Magnus Carlsen at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament.
Traditionally, competitive chess has been played with specified time limits. When chess first appeared in India around the seventh century AD, measuring time was a critical part of the game.
After losing Chess.com’s World Speed Chess Championship to American grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura recently, world champion Magnus Carlsen rebounded to claim FIDE’s World Rapid Championship title last week.
American Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura defeated Norwegian Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen in a close final to win the 2022 Speed Chess Championship and claim his fifth title in that genre of chess.