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@chess-news Aug 15, 2025, 10:55 AM UTC

Vincent Keymer won the Chennai Masters 2025 with 7 out of 9!

Dear chessfans, Vincent Keymer won also his last game against Ray Robson and thus dominated this years Chennai Masters with a spectacular performance! 5 wins and 4 draws - not bad with these opponent…

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@chess-news Apr 6, 2025, 4:23 PM UTC

Tomorrow the next Chess Freestyle Grand Slam Event starts in Paris!

Dear chess fans, next week it is again chess Freestyle time! Or rather chess960 or Fischerrandom, you name it. https://www.freestyle-chess.com/ And this time the lineup of players is more than impres…

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@chess-news Feb 19, 2025, 10:45 AM UTC

Chess will for the first time join the Esports World Cup 2025!

This is a historic debut! With this step competitive chess will be featured for the very first time in the Esports World Cup (EWC), the world’s largest gaming and esports festival. The event will tak…

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@chess-news Feb 7, 2025, 10:52 AM UTC

Today the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025 begins!

Dear chess fans, not only is today evening round 2 of the Hivechess Season 20 played, but today is also the highly-expected start of the 2025 Chess960/Fischerrandom "Grand Slam" Tour, or "Freestyle"…

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@chess-news Jan 16, 2025, 3:22 PM UTC

TATA Steel Masters starts on Saturday

Dear chess fans, the first chess super-tournament of 2025 will start in 2 days, at 2pm CET, in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands. These are the 14 players. https://www.chess.com/events/info/2025-tata-steel-c…

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@chess-news Jan 14, 2025, 4:57 PM UTC

Magnus played this weekend in the German Bundesliga

Dear chessfans, Magnus Carlson clearly does not like classical chess too much these days, he will also skip the TATA Steel Masters 2025 (which starts this weekend), one of the most prestigious tourna…

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@chess-news Dec 27, 2024, 11:45 PM UTC

Magnus Carlsen had to forfeit a game due to not meeting the dress code!

Dear chess fans, this is really crazy! In the FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championships 2024 currently held in New York, the top seeded player and reigning Rapid Champion Magnus Carlsen was wearing…

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@chess-news Dec 21, 2024, 10:18 AM UTC

There is a new chess variant: Random Chess

Dear chess fans, if Fischerrandom (or Chess960 or Freestyle Chess) is still too conventional for you, then you might want to go one step further and try out "Random Chess"! It is with normal chess pi…

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@chess-news Nov 25, 2024, 5:34 PM UTC

Ding Liren surprisingly won the first game in the Chess World Championship!

Reigning Chess World Champion Ding Liren scored his first victory and took an early lead (often the games 1 in WC matches end in draws). In this position Gukesh had to play Be1 to keep the balance, a…

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@chess-news Nov 22, 2024, 9:59 AM UTC

On Monday the Chess World Championship will start! Who will win?

The 2024 Chess World Championship will take place in Singapore from November 25 to December 13! Current World Champion Ding Liren from China and challenger Gukesh Dommaraju from India will face each…

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