Monaco hosts the second leg of FIDE Women’s Grand Prix
Monaco is ready to take on the role of the world’s chess capital for the next 17 days. On November 30th, the European Chess Union stages its first European Chess Awards Ceremony with a gala that took place at the prestigious Hotel de Paris. Many famous guests including FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich and chess legends Garry Kasparov and Nona Gaprindashvili attended the […]
December rating list: Grischuk is back in the top 5
(Photo: Valeria Gordienko) FIDE December 1 rating listAll Top-100 listsAll rating lists – download November of 2019 was rich with both individual and team events which greatly influenced the December rating list. Since Carlsen, Caruana and Ding Liren were not very active in classical chess whereas their closest pursuers did not accumulate many rating points in November, Alexander […]
Grand Chess Tour finals highlight London Chess Classic festival
The $350,000 Grand Chess Tour Finals at the London Chess Classic are starting on Monday, December 2 at Olympia. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave squeezed into the fourth qualifying place after the dramatic elimination of Vishy Anand. Anand narrowly lost out on his ticket to London after going down in the penultimate blitz game against Magnus Carlsen at the Tata Steel India Rapid & […]