The Pool B of the Women’s Candidates took place in Khiva, Uzbekistan, from 28th November to 11th December, with the same system as it was in Pool A. The two quarterfinals were between GM Aleksandra Goryachkina (FIDE) against GM Alexandra Kosteniuk (FIDE) and GM Kateryna Lagno (FIDE) against GM Zhongyi Read more…
From the 12th to the 23rd of November, Cagliari gave home to the Italian Championship of 2022. There were 3 sections – Open, Woman’s section and U20 Open. The Italian Championship The Italian Championship was a 12-player round-robin with a time control of 100 minutes for the first 40 moves, Read more…
The 2022-23 FIDE Women´s Candidates Tournament is an elite eight-player chess tournament which is held to determine the challenger of Women´s World Chess Champion – GM Ju Wenjun. Players also compete for their share of the €250.000 prize fund. The prize fund is distributed as follows: • 1st: €60,000, • Read more…
The 37th European Chess Club Cup and the 26th European Women’s Club Cup were from 2nd to 10th October in Mayrhofen, Austria. For the seven-round tournament, the teams in the open needed six players + two reserves, all of whom had to be members of the club or if not, the Read more…
I played the Hoogeveen Open from the 15th to 22nd of October in a small town named Hoogeveen in the Netherlands. The tournament had nine rounds with the time control of 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an Read more…
A Belarusian-born Israeli chess grandmaster Ilya Smirin was sacked by FIDE for making inappropriate sexist comments during a live broadcast of the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix in Astana, Kazakhstan. During FIDE Women’s Grand Prix was Smirin working as an English-language commentator alongside WIM Fiona Steil-Antoni from Luxemburg. The remarks were made during the Read more…