Day 5: Vachier-Lagrave bounces back, Caruana stumbles
What started off as a slow day with three draws quickly turned dramatic as Maxime Vachier-Lagrave bounced back in today’s round to defeat Darius Swiercz, while Jeffery Xiong took advantage of a time-trouble blunder by Fabiano Caruana to upset the World No. 2 in stunning fashion. With the win, Vachier-Lagrave propelled himself back into a tie for first place with 3.5/5, where […]
Everything on the line after Day 2
Saturday, August 21st 2021 – Sixty federation teams battled it out today on Chess.com’s online servers for the sixteen qualification spots that advance to the next stage of the Olympiad. Pool A started very early – 0800 UTC – and Pool E closed the playing day at 20.00 UTC, for more than twelve hours of official online chess: […]
FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss and Women’s Grand Swiss 2021: participant contracts
Dear players, Herewith we publish the official contracts of participants in FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss 2021 and FIDE Chess.com Women’s Grand Swiss 2021. To confirm your participation, you should sign and send the contract to the FIDE Secretariat (office@fide.com) no later than 12.00 CEST on August 30, 2021. Participant contract – FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss […]