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During the Sinquefield Cup in September 2022, a controversy arose involving the chess grandmasters Magnus Carlsen, then world champion, and Hans Niemann. Carlsen, after surprisingly losing in their third-round matchup, dropped out of the tournament. Many interpreted his withdrawal as Carlsen tacitly accusing Niemann of having cheated.
2720: Mikhail Botvinnik, Emanuel Lasker. 2700: Mikhail Tal. 2690: Alexander Alekhine, Paul Morphy, Vasily Smyslov. Though published in 1978, Elo's list did not include five-year averages for later players Bobby Fischer and Anatoly Karpov. It did list January 1978 ratings of 2780 for Fischer and 2725 for Karpov. [2]
The 2022 Candidates Tournament was an eight-player chess tournament to decide the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2023. The tournament took place at the Palacio de Santoña in Madrid, Spain, from June 16 to July 5, 2022, [2] with the World Championship finishing in April 2023. [3] As with every Candidates tournament since 2013, it ...
R Praggnanandhaa. Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (born 10 August 2005) is an Indian chess grandmaster. Praggnanandhaa and his sister Vaishali are the first brother-sister duo to both earn the GM title. [1] They are also the first brother-sister duo to qualify for the Candidates. [2]
The World Chess Championship 2021 was a chess match between the reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen and the challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi to determine the World Chess Champion. It was held under the auspices of FIDE and played during Expo 2020 at Dubai Exhibition Centre in Dubai , United Arab Emirates , between 24 November and 12 December ...
Anna Yolanda Cramling Bellón (born 30 April 2002) is a Spanish-Swedish chess player, Twitch live streamer, and YouTuber who holds the title of Woman FIDE Master (WFM). She had a peak FIDE rating of 2175 in March 2018. Cramling represented Sweden in the 2016 and 2022 Chess Olympiad as well as two European Team Chess Championships.
Ian Nepomniachtchi. Ian Alexandrovich Nepomniachtchi (Russian: Ян Алекса́ндрович Непо́мнящий, tr. Yan Aleksandrovich Nepomnyashchiy, IPA: [ˈjan ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ nʲɪˈpomnʲɪɕːɪj] ⓘ; born 14 July 1990) is a Russian chess grandmaster . Nepomniachtchi won the 2010 and 2020 Russian Superfinal and the ...
Chess.com is an internet chess server and social networking website. ... Chess.com acquired the Amsterdam-based chess news site chessvibes.com as well. ...