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During the opening ceremony of the 1993 Anatoly Karpov-Jan Timman match; fire caused by pyrotechnics is evident in the background (Photo: Chessbase)
During the opening ceremony of the 1993 Anatoly Karpov-Jan Timman match; fire caused by pyrotechnics is evident in the background (Photo: Chessbase)

Two World Championships in one year

Thirty years ago, in September 1993, two separate World Championship matches were played in the Netherlands and England for the first and only time in chess history.

Magnus Carlsen (left) and Hans Niemann before the start of their controversial game at the St Louis Chess Club, in September 2022 (Lennart Ootes/St Louis Chess Club)
Magnus Carlsen (left) and Hans Niemann before the start of their controversial game at the St Louis Chess Club, in September 2022 (Lennart Ootes/St Louis Chess Club)

Carlsen, Niemann moving on from cheating scandal

The final chapter was written recently in the Magnus Carlsen and Hans Niemann feud, according to leading chess platform Chess.com,

Young Guyanese show mettle at CAC chess festival

The fact that a Guyanese player, Kataleya Sam, was decorated with a bronze medal in the under-10 category at the recent 2023 Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Youth Chess Festival which was held in Trinidad and Tobago, speaks volumes for Guyana’s energetic chess development.

Youth strides in chess

When the seven-round Diamond Fire and General Insurance Women’s Chess Championship Qualifiers ends today at the School of the Nations, Georgetown, the winner is likely to be either former women’s national champion Sasha Shariff or Jessica Callender.

More accommodation needed for women in chess

The 2023 seven-round National Women’s Chess Qualifiers Tournament for selection to contest the National Championship has begun at the School of the Nations, Georgetown with four of the stars of last year’s Chess Olympiad in India, Sasha Shariff, Anaya Lall, Nellisha Johnson and Jessica Callender among those in contention.

Vladimir Kramnik (Photo: Michelle Lassak)

Can Couchman retain his U-16 title?

Tomorrow’s important national Under-16 Chess Championship Tournament at the Marian Academy follows the inaugural tournament of the Global Chess League (GCL) in Dubai and the 50th Dortmund Chess Festival in Germany.

Fabiano Caruana (second, right) with his winner’s cheque of US$100,000 (Photo: Lennart Ootes)

Caruana scored big at Superbet classic

United States chess champ Fabiano Caruana conquered an elite field which included current world champion Ding Liren, to win the Superbet Chess Classic Tournament in Bucharest, Romania, recently.

Ding Liren (right) and Ian Nepomniachtchi (Photo: FIDE/Anna Shtourman)

Return of the underdog

Exactly sixty years ago, as it happened in 2023 between Ding LIren and Ian Nepomniachtchi, Tigran Petrosian opposed Mikhail Botvinnik for the FIDE World Championship Chess Championship.

Ding Liren smiles broadly after winning the World Chess Championship title in Astana, Kazakhstan, recently. (Photo: FIDE/ Stev Bonhage)

Ding Liren wins big for China

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.

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