Nino Batsiashvili wins Georgian Women’s Championship
Nino Batsiashvili is a new Georgia Women’s Champion. A native of Batumi won her fourth national title in the 79th Georgian Women’s Championship, held from June 6–15, 2022, in Tbilisi. The only GM in the 10-player round-robin with classical time control, Nino lost her first-round game to Salome Melia but roared back, scoring eight (!) straight victories and taking […]
Latvia launches Chess in Prisons programme
The number of countries where chess is introduced to prison inmates keeps growing. The initiative expands as those coaches and prison officers who already use chess as an efficient tool for reintegrating incarcerated people share their experience in chess education with the countries joining the program. Earlier in May Mikhail Korenman, Manager of the Chess Programme […]
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FIDE announces the beginning of the 2022 Candidates Tournament
At the opening press conference in the Palacio de Santona in Madrid, FIDE announced the beginning of the 2022 Candidates Tournament to determine who will be the next challenger for the title of World Champion The press event was held at the monumental Palacio de Santona and attended by the Deputy Councillor of Sports for […]