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

Ian Nepomniachtchi (Photo: FIDE/Anna Shtourman)

Ian Nepomniachtchi or Ding Liren

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.

Winners of the De Sinco Ltd Under-12 National Chess Championships
with Vice-President of the GCF Irshad Mohamad (right)

New GCF leadership installed

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.

Turkish Grandmaster Mustafa Yilmaz plays the black pieces against Vaishali Rameshbabu at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament.
(Photo: Jurriaan Hoefsmit/Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2023)

Stars stand out at Tata Steel tournament

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.

Magnus Carlsen (left) with Fabiano Caruana in foreground and Vincent Keymer (Photo: Lennart Ootes)

Carlsen rebounds

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.

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