Currently rated 2526, she stands in fifth place in the Chinese rankings and number twelve overall in the world. Winner of the Women’s World University Chess Championship in 2012 and the 2014 Asian Women’s Blitz Championship, she broke through in 2015 becoming the Chinese Women’s Champion am...
which has been upgraded by FIDE as the "Grand Swiss" to a qualifying tournament for the Candidates Tournament. FIDE has been able to win over the Scheinberg family for a long-term commitment to chess. The Scheinberg family is providing a prize fund of USD 750,000 for...
The 2024 FIDE Candidates has concluded. Gukesh D and Tan Zhongyi are the Challengers for the World Championship. 17-year-old Indian prodigy Gukesh is the youngest World Chess Championship Challenger in history. He will face World Champion Ding Liren in the match at the end of this year, ...
TheFIDE Candidates Chess 2022will take place in Madrid, from June 16 to July 7. It will be an 8-player double-round robin with some of the world’s top Grandmasters. The winner of the FIDE 2022 Candidates Chess Tournament will qualify for the World Championship match later this year, com...
3/16/2020 – The candidate tournament in Yekaterinburg is a major highlight in the eventful chess year 2020 and one of the few current events that has (so far) not been heavily affected by the Coronavirus epidemic. The opening is on Monday and the first of fourteen rounds follows on ...
(win) a rapid-play tiebreaker (决胜局) after 14 first-stage games at the World Chess Championship in Kazakhstan.Ding's victory makes him the 17th winner of the world chess game.His success, (2) widely(wide) celebrated in China,shows the country's rising influence in gl...
Rapid and Blitz tournaments are also eligible, but they respectively offer 0.6x and 0.4x the points of a classical tournament of the same strength. The winner of the FIDE circuit 2023 will be decided on the 1st of January 2024. Current standings ...
The tournament winner felt that until the 11th round he “played the best chess for sure”. “At the end everyone got tired, the quality got lower and anything could happen. But overall I think I did pretty well and I deserve to win.” Carlsen said he was “very impressed” by Kramni...
The road to the Candidates tournament in 2020 is starting to emerge. World Chess / Agon will no longer organise either the Candidates or the 2020 World Championship match. FIDE has launched a new qualification path — the FIDE "Grand Swiss"— a Swiss tou
The winner and runner-up of the ongoingWorld Cupin Tbilisi The top two finishers in theWorld Chess Grand Prix Series The two players with the highest averge 2017 ratings A wild card choice Sounds simple enough, right? But — and this is key — the list above is also the order ofpriority...