World Junior Championship 2019 kicks off in New Delhi
FIDE World Junior Chess Championship (U20) 2019 started in the Indian capital New Delhi. The open section of the tournament brought together 94 players, including 15 grandmasters. The girls’ section attracted 95 participants. Amin Tabatabaei (2642) and Zhu Jiner (2507, top-rated U20 women player in the world, featured at ratings.fide.com frontpage) entered the competition as the […]
Workshop for International Arbiters concluded in Sochi
А Workshop for International Arbiters, the fourth event in the FIDE & CFR Pilot Project for Training and Certification of the International Arbiters for the 2020 World Chess Olympiad, took place in Sochi, October 11-14. The Project’s objective is to train and to certify a cadre of IAs, especially female arbiters, who are on top […]
Grand Swiss: Fabiano Caruana’s miracle
Day five of the Isle of Man Grand Swiss saw World No 2 Fabiano Caruana barely avoiding a loss at the hands of the Englishman Luke McShane in a spectacular game which lasted for over six and a half hours. On the second board, China’s Wang Hao split a point with the Junior World Champion […]