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The 2024 World Chess Championship is set to kick off this week, a showdown between 18-year-old Gukesh Dommaraju of India and reigning champion Ding Liren of China.
Magnus Carlsen has quit a tournament in New York after being told to change out of jeans.. The world No1 appeared at the event on Wall Street to defend his titles at the World Rapid and Blitz ...
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In 2024, Carlsen and Niemann played three online games against each other during the span of several Titled Tuesday events on Chess.com. Carlsen scored 2.5/3 in those games. [114] In the 2024 FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Team Championships, Carlsen's team WR Chess was paired four times in total against the team GMHans.com. Carlsen sat out all ...
The Week in Chess (TWIC) is a chess news web site. It was founded in 1994 and is based in the United Kingdom. TWIC has been edited by Mark Crowther since its inception in 1994. [1] It began as a weekly Usenet posting, with "TWIC 1" being posted to Usenet group rec.games.chess on 17 September 1994. [2]
The U.S. Masters Championship is an official national chess championship sanctioned by US Chess that has been held 27 times since 1982. The event is a Swiss tournament usually restricted to players who have established peak ratings over 2200, plus high rated junior players, at the discretion of the organizer.
Online chess is often played faster, with 93.8% of live chess games on Chess.com being played with a time control of 10 minutes per side or faster. [18] International Master Anna Rudolf said that "online chess' shift to speed chess has brought excitement to the game."
Chess theory usually divides the game of chess into three phases with different sets of strategies: the opening, typically the first 10 to 20 moves, when players move their pieces to useful positions for the coming battle; the middlegame; and last the endgame, when most of the pieces are gone, kings typically take a more active part in the ...