Choose to Challenge: International Women's Day
Tomorrow, 8 March, is International Women's Day. We'll be celebrating here on chess24 with a big women's team event featuring players from chess24, CoChess, Chessable and PlayMagnus. First, however, Sean Marsh takes a look at the context and aims of the day.
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Carlsen's 117th time as world number one as Van Foreest & Esipenko join 2700 club
The Tata Steel Chess Masters was among the few events to count towards FIDE's March 2021 Rating List that was published on Monday. Ratings winners Jorden van Foreest (+30 to 2701) and Andrey Esipenko (+24 to 2701) are new entries in...
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Checkmate! The Queen’s Gambit & Anya Taylor-Joy win Golden Globes
The Queen’s Gambit Netflix series has won the Golden Globe for the Best TV Limited Series while Anya Taylor-Joy, who starred as chess prodigy Beth Harmon, took home her first Golden Globe as Best Actress. Anya, who faced stiff co...
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‘Thank you very much’: David Anton and Anish Giri win chess24 vote to play in next Tour event
Anish Giri and David Anton are the names chess24 members chose to play in the next event on the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour. The pair won the Premium vote and will lock horns in the 16-player tournament, stage four of the Tour, w...
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Estonian GM Ottomar Ladva wins partypoker Super High Roller, turning $530 into $525,089
23-year-old grandmaster and 4-time Estonian Champion Ottomar Ladva just won partypoker's Super High Roller after beating one of the best poker players in the world, Justin Bonomo, in the heads-up final!
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Carlsen & Firouzja back for Norway Chess in May
Magnus Carlsen will be out to defend his Altibox Norway Chess title just 7 months after the 2020 tournament ended, with the organisers planning to return to a 10-player global event in May with the likes of Ding Liren and Wesley ...
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13-year-old Marc Maurizzi scores 2nd GM norm
It's been a tough year for chess prodigies, but 13-year-old Corsican Marc'Andria Maurizzi is one good result away from the grandmaster title after finishing unbeaten on 6.5/9 in the Barcelona GM Tournament held from 16-24 February. ...
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Chigorin's Checkmates
Mikhail Chigorin (1850-1908) is one of the founding fathers of Russian chess. He lost two matches for the World Chess Championship title against the first official champion Wilhelm Steinitz, in 1889 and 1892. A highly creative pl...
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Grenke Bank win World Corporate Chess Championship
Alina Kashlinskaya and Inna Agrest grabbed the wins as Grenke Bank, led by Georg Meier, overcame Ian Nepomniachtchi’s SBER on Sunday to win the 1st FIDE Online World Corporate Chess Championship. 288 teams had been whittled down ...
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ChessBase’s Fat Fritz 2 condemned as ‘rip-off’ Stockfish clone
Stockfish and Leela Chess Zero developers have joined together with Lichess to condemn what they see as false advertising by ChessBase of the recently released Fat Fritz 2 chess software. The promotional material suggests the che...
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Nepo & Korobov in World Corporate Championship Final 8
Ian Nepomniachtchi scored 6/6 and his team SBER dropped just 1.5 points out of 24 as the favourites to win the 1st Online FIDE World Corporate Chess Championship cruised into the knockout stages. It was tougher for the other 2700...
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