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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.
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]
Faustino Oro. Faustino Oro (born October 14, 2013) is an Argentine chess player. [1] [2] In 2024, he defeated Magnus Carlsen in a bullet chess game. [3] [4] [5] In 2023, when he was nine, he received a rating of 2300 (classical), becoming the youngest chess player to have done so. [4] He has been dubbed the " Messi of chess".
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 ...
The Grand Chess Tour 2024 is a series of chess tournaments, which is the ninth edition of the Grand Chess Tour. It will consist of five tournaments with a total prize pool of US$1.4 million, including two tournaments with classical time control and three tournaments with faster time controls .
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The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE (/ ˈ f iː d eɪ / FEE-day Fédération Internationale des Échecs), is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the governing body of international chess competition.
Chess.com is an internet chess server and social networking website. ... Chess.com acquired the Amsterdam-based chess news site chessvibes.com as well. ...