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2024 Chess Olympiad: Round 4
2024 Chess Olympiad: Round 4Saturday, 14 September 2024 Open The U.S. gets upset by Ukraine as Wesley So loses a heartbreaker against Vasyl Ivanchuk. A very uncharacteristic mistake by the gold medalist puts a barrier on gold medal aspirations as India keep rolling. Wesley So blundered a winning position against…
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2024 Chess Olympiad: Round 3
2024 Chess Olympiad: Round 3Friday, 13 September 2024 Nice aerial shot by Michal Walusza! Open Round 3 of the Budapest Olympiad saw some contested battles, but the buzz of the round was the world’s top player, Magnus Carlsen, arriving 11 minutes late for his first game. Team Captain Odin Blikra Vea explained…
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2024 Chess Olympiad: Round 2
2024 Chess Olympiad: Round 2Thursday, 12 September 2024 Open In Round 2 of the Chess Olympiad, we saw more drama as Levon Aronian managed tremendous risks in his game against Zhenyoung Wong of Singapore. Aronian escaped first-round disaster after losing a minor piece. In this game, he was down a…
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2024 Chess Olympiad: Round 1
2024 Chess Olympiad: Round 1Wednesday, 11 September 2024 The 2024 Chess Olympiad has begun! Typically, Round 1 pairings are top teams against those from developing federations. The most common story is about upsets. Every Olympiad, there is usually a case of a player with a 300-400 rating handicap winning or…
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2024 Chess Olympiad (Budapest, Hungary)
Budapest, Hungary is the site of the 2024 Chess Olympiad and the venue is said to be spectacular. The event began on September 11th and will last until the 23rd. This Olympiad marks the 100th year of FIDE’s founding. ChessBase India’s Sagar Shah gave a tour of the BOK Hall…
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Chess Olympiad begins… Visagate rages
The Chess Olympiad started today as the favorites went through smoothly, but visagate has tainted the event. Many countries were not paired in the first round due to visa issues. Every couple of years, we see these stories, but this year it seemed unusual. Chessdom.com reported that as many as…
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FIDE 2022 election campaigns heat up!
Early this month, the Presidential election (FIDE 2022) opened and there are already four candidates for President. This point was noted by current FIDE Vice President Nigel Short. It appears that the FIDE Presidential Election will be a crowded field. — Nigel Short (@nigelshortchess) May 20, 2022 Crowded indeed. After…
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Dvorkovich-Anand 2022 campaign for FIDE
Six weeks ago on April 1st, Arkady Dvorkovich announced a commitment from 5-time world champion Viswanathan Anand to stand with him on the ticket for reelection. The incumbent FIDE President needs to gain some appeal after his former ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin have put him in a serious…
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Geopolitics and the Diverse Voices in Chess
The Russian incursion into Ukraine is still burning up the news cycle more than two months after the geopolitical conflict began. The constant display of the horrid images of battle and scenes of death has filled our consciousness. The reaction was swift as FIDE condemned the act and decided to…
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Togo’s Fumey will stand for FIDE President
The chess community on the African continent is buzzing at the news of Enyonam Sewa Noël Fumey announcing his candidacy for FIDE President. According to the FIDE press release, Fumey notified current FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich of his intentions. There was also this plea of inclusivity: “FIDE machine is working…
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