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Carlsen at all-time high

August ratings: Carlsen at all-time high World Champion Magnus Carlsen hit an Elo rating of 2882 in May 2014. Five years later, he's back at that exact same number on the official August list, and arguably stronger than ever, following a string of successes in the first seven months of 2019. Alireza Firouzja and Jeffrey Xiong are two top J...

Congratulations to the 2016 Chess world champion and thank you Sergey Karjakin for putting up a great fight! As IM Sagar Shah says,
"All Hail King Magnus"



Picture : Magnes Carlsen after retaining his title :)

Happy Birthday Champion !! All the best for today's game. We are so excited :)

Congratulations our little heros for wining the Bronze Medal at the Asian Nations Cup Under 14 Blitz championships!
Sri Lanka is making little strides towards a big journey.

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Bilbao: Nakamura beats Carlsen The first round of the Masters in Bilbao started with a bang. For the first time in his career Hikaru Nakamura won against Magnus Carlsen in a game with classical time control. World Champion Carlsen played too aggressively and an unimpressed Nakamura countered. The two other games were drawn. Wei Y...

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Komodo is World Computer Chess Champion It's stiffest competition came from the German program Jonny, running on a giant 2400-core machine. With only 48 cores the US program Komodo finished the computer tournament in Leiden, Netherlands, equal first with Jonny, then went on to win a hard-fought tiebreak, making it the 22nd World Computer…

Wish you a blessed Eid..!!!

Carlsen wins Grand Chess Tour Leuven In Paris, at the first leg of the Grand Chess Tour 2016, Hikaru Nakamura was able to get the better of World Champion Magnus Carlsen. But at the second Grand Chess Tour tournament 2016 in Leuven Carlsen came back with a vengeance. He showed an impressive performance in the second part of the blitz t...

Russia vs China Since 2001 Russia and China play friendship chess matches against each other. The tenth of these friendship matches takes place from 11th to 15 June in Moscow. Each team consists of five players and each player of one team plays against all players from the other team. After three rounds the score i...

“Greatest fighter” Viktor Korchnoi dies at 85 Viktor Korchnoi, many people’s choice as the greatest player not to have won the World Championship, has passed away at the age of 85. Nicknamed “Viktor the Terrible” for his legendary fighting spirit, Korchnoi won the USSR Championship four times before defecting from the Soviet Union, fought three matches that would have given him the world title and won games against all the World Champions from Botvinnik to Kasparov. He featured in the Top 100 at the age of 75, beat Fabiano Caruana at 79 and refused even to let a stroke in 2012 prevent him from returning to competitive chess. June 6, 2016 at 11:48AM RIP Sir...