It all started with GM Zhansaya Abdumalik pulling out of the tournament on Saturday and continued with GM Elisabeth Paehtz pulling out on Sunday. What is the story behind their withdrawal? The FIDE Women´s Grand Prix 2023 is the first-ever Grand Prix tournament played on Indian soil in New Delhi. Read more…
Alejandro Ramirez is a 34-years old Costa Rican-American grandmaster, coach and commentator and was recently accused by eight women of sexually assaulting them in an article published by The Wall Street Journal. It all started when WGM Jennifer Shade (two-time United States women’s champion, author and commentator, who worked alongside Ramirez Read more…
Iranian top chess player Sara Khadem took part in the World Rapid Chess Championship in Almaty, Kazakhstan. On December 28, she played without a mandatory hijab. You can read it here: While the chess world was wondering why she chose not to wear a hijab, Sara Khadem had already gone Read more…
Iranian chess player Sara Khadem took part in the FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship in Almaty, Kazakhstan. On December 28, she played the second day of the tournament without mandatory hijab. For Iranian women and girls above the age of 9, the hijab is compulsory in public under Iran’s dress Read more…
It all started as an ordinary game in round three during the Sinquefield Cup in September 2022. Nobody could have predicted that one game can turn into a big chaos. Hans Niemann, a 19-year-old American, faced the World Champion – Magnus Carlsen, who did not lose the last 53 games 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…