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Upsets seen in Chess Olympiad
American Fabiano Caruana was one of grandmasters scoring wins on Thursday in Round Two of 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad in Budapest, Hungary.
American Fabiano Caruana was one of grandmasters scoring wins on Thursday in Round Two of 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad in Budapest, Hungary.
The great St Petersburg chess tournament of 1914, saw the world’s best players in attendance.
The ‘Overseas Friends of Guyana’s Chess from the USA donated a total of five tournament size chess sets to the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) in June, which were subsequently presented to the St Ignatius Primary School, Lethem in Region Nine through the Allied Arts Division, Ministry of Education.
On Tuesday August 20, resourceful English chess columnist Leonard Barden turned 95.
Russia’s chess grandmaster Boris Spassky became a household name in the West during his encounter with America’s Bobby Fischer in the 1972 “Match of the Century” World Championship contest.
Soviet-Armenian grandmaster and a previous world chess champion, Tigran Petrosian was noted for his impenetrable defensive playing style.
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has published the teams which will participate in the 45th Olympiad in Budapest, Hungary, from September 11-22, 2024.
Queen’s College student Aditi Joshi, 14, supplemented her international FIDE rating by scoring the most points for Guyana at the recent 2024 Pan-Am Youth Chess Championship, in Florida, USA.
During the 2024 Junior Championship Qualifier Tournament sponsored by Moo Milk, which was contested earlier this month, Mahir Rajkumar outplayed Italy Ton-Chung.
Junior chess is becoming more pronounced in Guyana with the hosting of a fair number of tournaments recently.
Grand Prix No 4, the last of the intensely competitive chess tournaments for seniors in a classical mode, was won by Candidate Master Ronuel Greenidge who played unbeaten throughout the eight-round competition.
Playing in Guyana’s 4th Grand Prix chess tournament, Ethan Lee and Ronuel Greenidge’s game ended in a draw, in 67 moves.
The annual Cairns Cup, an elite women’s chess tournament ends today in St Louis, Missouri, USA.
Each time Magnus Carlsen gets defeated in a chess game, it reverberates as news in the chess world.
I was replaying some games from the National Qualifiers Tournament that was held to identify entrants for the 2024 National Chess Championship which began yesterday.
The dictionary of chess defines a blunder as a move so inferior in one’s standard of play as to be inexplicable on purely technical grounds.
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has announced an initiative for its ChessMom project.
After six rounds of the nine-round 2024 National Women’s Chess Championship,13-year-old Aditi Joshi of Queen’s College and journalist Jessica Callender were in the lead with five points each.
As winner of the FIDE 2024 World Championship Candidates Tournament, 17-year-old chess grandmaster from Chennai, India, Dommaraju Gukesh must now prepare to face world champion Ding Liren from China later this year.
After 11 rounds, mid-last week, Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi, 33, with 7 points, was in the lead at the Open World Championship Candidates Tournament currently underway in Toronto, Canada.
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