Top 150 (Online) Chess Events, Resources and Boards

CHESS is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide in homes, parks, clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.

Each player begins the game with 16 pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. Each of the six piece types moves differently. Pieces are used to attack and capture the opponent's pieces, with the objective to 'checkmate' the opponent's king by placing it under an inescapable threat of capture. In addition to checkmate, the game can be won by the voluntary resignation of the opponent, which typically occurs when too much material is lost, or if checkmate appears unavoidable. A game may also result in a draw in several ways, where neither player wins. The course of the game is divided into three phases: opening, middlegame, and endgame.

The first official World Chess Champion, Wilhelm Steinitz, claimed his title in 1886; the current World Champion is Norwegian chess Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen. In addition to the World Championship, there are the Women's World Championship, the Junior World Championship, the World Senior Championship, the Correspondence Chess World Championship, the World Computer Chess Championship, and Blitz and Rapid World Championships. The Chess Olympiad is a popular competition among teams from different nations. Online chess has opened amateur and professional competition to a wide and varied group of players. Chess is a recognized sport of the International Olympic Committee and international chess competition is sanctioned by the World Chess Federation (FIDE), which adopted the now-standard Staunton chess set in 1924 for use in all official games. There are also many chess variants, with different rules, different pieces, and different boards.

Since the second half of the 20th century, computers have been programmed to play chess with increasing success, to the point where the strongest home computers play chess at a higher level than the best human players. In the past two decades computer analysis has contributed significantly to chess theory, particularly in the endgame. The computer Deep Blue was the first machine to overcome a reigning World Chess Champion in a match when it defeated Garry Kasparov in 1997.

Chess Events & Tournaments

• Linares chess tournament - since 1978. Sometimes described as the Wimbledon of chess.
• List of strong chess tournaments - this article depicts many of the strongest international chess tournaments in history.
• Sinquefield Cup - since 2013. Annual, invitation-only chess tournament in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, honoring Rex Sinquefield and his wife Jeanne, the founders of the Saint Louis Chess Club. Since 2015, the Sinquefield Cup has been a part of the Grand Chess Tour.
• The FISCHER Random Chess Championship 2019 - was the first world championship in Fischer Random Chess officially recognized by the international chess federation FIDE. The winner of the final was Wesley So, defeating Magnus Carlsen 13.5–2.5, to become the first FIDE world champion in Fischer Random Chess. Over the course of the competition, various time controls were applied, with longer games being weighted more heavily.
• World Chess Championship 2023 - The match is scheduled to be between the current World Champion, Magnus Carlsen, and the winner of the 2022 Candidates Tournament. However a few days after the previous championship in 2021, Carlsen said he may not be motivated enough to play another world championship match, and might not compete in the 2023 edition unless the challenger is Alireza Firouzja, who rose to number two in the world rankings in 2021. In April 2022 he went further, saying he was unlikely to play, making no mention of Firouzja. If Carlsen decides not to play, and if the match has the same conditions as the 2021 match, then the top two finishers in the 2022 Candidates will play a match for the World Championship.
• World Chess960 Championship aka Fischer Random championship - since 1996. A popular chess variant in which the positions of pieces on the players' home ranks are randomized with certain constraints.

Chess Media

• Chess Life - since 1946. The official magazines published by the United States Chess Federation (US Chess).
• Chess Magazine - since 1935. Chess magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom by Chess and Bridge Limited.
• Chess Today - was the first, and longest running, Internet-only daily chess newspaper,[1] having continued virtually uninterrupted from 7 November 2000 through to December 2020.
• List of chess periodicals - Wikipedia.

Chess News, Reviews & Resources

• 8 Chess Terms Every Player Should Know - "Every player of Chess should be familiar with these terms."
• 8-year-old becomes youngest chess player to beat grandmaster - "Ashwath Kaushik of Singapore defeats 37-year-old grandmaster, beating record set days before by another eight-year-old."
• 10 Best Chess Players Of All Time - "The games of these masters delight, inspire, and teach us the ways of the royal game. It is common to discuss the greatest players of all time in chess circles—but these discussions always beg the singular question: Who was the best of all time?"
• 12-year-old Abhimanyu Mishra becomes youngest grandmaster in chess history - "To become a grandmaster in chess, a player must achieve three grandmaster norms - an award given for a high level of performance in a chess tournament - as well as achieving an 2500 Elo rating given out by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE), the rankings that govern international chess competition."
• 16-year-old Indian chess sensation Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa stuns world No. 1 Magnus Carlsen - "Praggnanandhaa, nicknamed Pragg, belied his age and his experience as he remained cool and collected, while Carlsen appeared to make mistakes to present opportunities to the Indian youngster. And although the five-time world champion fought to get back into the game, Pragg didn't give him an opening, eventually holding on for a famous victory in the rapid chess tournament."
• 17-year-old chess sensation defeats Magnus Carlsen - "Indian chess sensation Dommaraju Gukesh defeats Magnus Carlsen on his 17th birthday. As birthday presents go, defeating the world No. 1 and five-time world champion must rank up there among the best for chess grandmaster Dommaraju Gukesh."
• After chess, cheating rows rock poker & fishing - "First it was chess - now top-level US poker and match fishing have been dogged by their own claims of cheating."
• An insight into the mind of a chess grandmaster - "How do you become a chess grandmaster? Magnus Carlsen is here to tell you."
• Armageddon - a game guaranteed to produce a result, because Black has draw odds (that is, for Black, a draw is equal to a victory). To compensate, White has more time on the clock. Common times are six minutes for White and five for Black, or five minutes for White and four for Black. This can also be played with a small increment. This is also known as "time odds" and it is used in various tie breaks for quick tournaments.
• BOBBY FISCHER - Wikipedia.
• Bobby Fischer - The match with Spassky (1972) - Game 4 - Sicilian Defense (B88). YouTube 26:04.
• Bobby Fischer Against the World - documentary feature film that explores the life of chess Grandmaster and 11th World Champion Bobby Fischer. YouTube 1:14:53.
• Body language, knowledge of the game & luck: the art of chess photography - "At first glance, it’s a sport that doesn’t seem the most vibrant or colorful or particularly dynamic, which makes the art of capturing its drama and excitement more complex than most sports photography. Maria Emelianova is a leading chess photographer, tasked with traveling the world to document the highs and lows of the sport."
• Bullet Chess - definition & explanation.
• CAFÉ DE LA RÉGENCE - in Paris was an important European centre of chess in the 18th and 19th centuries. All important chess masters of the time played there. It was opened as the Café de la Place du Palais-Royal near the Palais-Royal, Paris in 1681. By the 18th century it was known as the Café de la Régence ("Regency Café"). In 1852 the café moved temporarily to hôtel Dodun, 21 Rue de Richelieu. In 1854 the Café de la Régence moved to 161 Rue Saint-Honoré and remained there until it became a restaurant in 1910. The chess players moved to the café de l'Univers in 1916 and the Office national marocain du tourisme (National Moroccan Tourist Office) took over the site in 1918.
• Carlsen & Nepomniachtchi draw chess world title opener after flag furore - "Russian flag banned in buildup to showdown in Dubai. Defending champion Carlsen says he ‘was a little bit shaky’."
• Carlsen & Niemann impress as Paris grudge rematch approaches - "The pair will meet early next month for the first time across the board since the 2022 Sinquefield Cup, where their game sparked cheating allegations and a $100 million lawsuit."
• Carlsen draws first blood against Nepomniachtchi in world title battle - "Carlsen edges longest game in world championship history. Both players miss chances in 136-move game-six epic. The gruelling back-and-forth marathon was the longest game in the 135-year history of world championship matchplay - surpassing the 124-move stalemate in game five of the 1978 title match between Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi in 1978 - with both players missing winning opportunities under extreme clock pressure at the first time control."
• Carlsen extends record unbeaten streak after beating world No 2 Caruana - "Norway’s world champion outplays his US rival in a 51-move rook ending in Stavanger amid multiple anti-coronavirus precautions."
• Carlsen loses to a Pole in Poland with Polish Defence before winning run - "The world No 1 chose 1 d4 b5 as Black against Radoslaw Wojtaszek and was in trouble by move nine before resigning at move 38, but later won seven games in a row to take first prize in Warsaw."
• Carlsen triumphs in World Rapid, then sprints to avoid Blitz time forfeit - "The world No 1 led all the way in the Rapid, scoring 10/13 with some classic wins, before arriving late for round one of the Blitz and playing the whole 59 moves with only 30 seconds on his clock."
• Carlsen v Niemann debate rages on after world champion resigns after one move - "Both hope for a quarter-final place at the Julius Baer Generation Cup so a possible third encounter could lie in wait."
• Caruana leads at Stavanger after beating Carlsen in opening round - "The US champion beat the Norwegian for the first time in eight years, then scored in his next two games to lead the 10-player event."
• Chat GPT - Chess Forums - Chess.com.
• Cheating, groupies, big money & drunken brawls: how chess went rock’n’roll - "Chess’s fusty image has been shaken by recent allegations of underhand tactics. But as any fan or player can tell you, it has long been younger, hipper - and wilder - than most outsiders realised."
• CHESS - Wikipedia.
• Chess 'boom' fueled by hit Netflix show - "Hit Netflix show 'The Queen's Gambit' will speed up chess 'boom,' say grandmasters."
• Chess champion Magnus Carlsen moves to top of world fantasy football rankings - "Magnus Carlsen, the world’s best chess player for the last decade, is leading the Premier League’s official fantasy football table, beating over seven million players. The Norwegian says his Premier League success is down to luck."
• Chess Championship Returns to New York - The New York Times.
• Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann denies using vibrating sex toy to cheat - "Online platform Chess.com was also sued by Niemann after an investigation by the firm claimed he had 'likely' cheated in more than 100 games online."
• Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann sues champion Magnus Carlsen, others for $100 million over cheating claim - "The suit claims that the defendants, including Chess.com, inflicted 'devastating damages' against Niemann by 'egregiously defaming him' and 'unlawfully colluding' to bar him from the professional chess world."
• Chess is changing & the game can't keep up - "The increase in interest has culminated in the launch of a revamped online competition which will be the richest chess circuit in the game’s history. This year’s Champions Chess Tour will be the new online home for the world’s best players, as they battle it out for a share of more than $2 million."
• CHESS NEWS - chess news, chess programs, games, tournaments and databases.
• Chess Olympiad: India & Russia both get gold after controversial final - "India and Russia have been declared joint winners of a major international chess tournament after two Indian players lost their internet connection during the final round."
• Chess opening - Wikipedia.
• Chess players, from orbiting cosmonauts to the Wu-Tang Clan - in pictures - "An incredible collection of photographs documenting the intersection of chess and culture is published by FUEL, in the year FIDE (the International Chess Federation) celebrates its 100th anniversary. Artists, actors, musicians and more all show their love of the most cerebral of games in Chess Players, published in association with World Chess and FIDE."
• Chess rivals settle long-running cheating dispute - A Norwegian world champion and the US prodigy who unexpectedly beat him have resolved a year-long cheating row that rattled the world of chess. Magnus Carlsen accused Hans Niemann of foul play after he lost in the Sinquefield Cup in September. Mr Niemann sued his rival, the online platform Chess.com, and a second grandmaster for defamation. Chess.com now says the row is settled, Mr Niemann's account is restored and Mr Carlsen accepts there was no cheating. Mr Niemann said that he was 'pleased' that his lawsuit had been 'resolved in a mutually acceptable manner' and that he looked forward 'to competing against Magnus in chess rather than in court'.
• Chess robot breaks seven-year-old boy's finger during Moscow Open - "A robot broke a seven-year-old boy's finger during a chess match in Moscow last week, Russian news outlets report."
• Chess robot grabs & breaks finger of seven-year-old opponent - "Moscow incident occurred because child ‘violated’ safety rules by taking turn too quickly, says official."
• CHESS TOURNAMENT - series of chess games played competitively to determine a winning individual or team. Since the first international chess tournament in London, 1851, chess tournaments have become the standard form of chess competition among serious players.
• chess variants changing the professional game for good - "From classical to bullet, the different variants of chess explained."
• Chess world champion Magnus Carlsen explicitly accuses rival Hans Niemann of cheating - "The statement, which was made via a Twitter post, follows Carlsen’s recent withdrawal from the 2022 Sinquefield Cup in Saint Louis after his third round defeat against Niemann and his withdrawal against the American after making just one move during the Julius Baer Generation Cup on September 20."
• Chess.com swallows Play Magnus while Kushal Jakhria sets new world mark - "The merger between the two largest online chess groups will give the US-backed chess.com a dominant position, while the seven-year-old has set a record for the youngest ever 2000 national rating."
• ChessBomb - "Watch live chess online with computer analysis."
• CHESSCAFE.COM - daily chess news links.
• CHESSDOM - "Chess, chess news, live chess games." Chessdom is dedicated to professional and independent coverage of chess news and events from all over the globe! Join us for live chess games, interviews, video and photo reports, and social media reactions. Follow the development of the strongest chess software, which affects all chess today, via the Top Chess Engine Championship with its 24/7 live broadcast with chat.
• chessgames.com - "Online chess database and community."
• Cold War Intrigue in Chess Championship - The New York Times.
• Court dismisses chess grandmaster Hans Niemann’s lawsuit against Magnus Carlsen - "Niemann was seeking $100m in damages for slander and libel. On Tuesday, US District Judge Audrey Fleissig found Niemann’s antitrust claims had no merit."
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• Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov - February, 1996.
• Defiant Niemann ‘won’t back down’ amid damning chess cheating report - "Shortly after defeating 15-year-old Christopher Yoo with the unfavored black pieces in the opening round of the US Chess Championship, Niemann spoke for less than a minute in a terse post-game interview and insisted he is 'not going to back down' amid the allegations of foul play that have threatened to permanently stain an ascendent career that until last month was bursting with limitless promise."
• Ding Liren becomes China’s first world chess champion after beating Ian Nepomniachtchi in enthralling finale - "After the classical section of the tournament ended 7-7 after 14 games, the championship between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren went to tiebreaks. In the fourth and final rapid tiebreak game Sunday in Kazakhstan, it was Ding who was victorious, winning the rapid tiebreak by 2.5 points to 1.5 to become China’s first world chess champion in the open category."
• Ding Reveals Reason For Absence, Expects Comeback In 2024 - "GM Ding Liren has withdrawn from several events since becoming world champion. Now the Chinese star reveals to Chess.com that an unspecified illness is the cause of his absence and that he intends to return to tournament play in 2024."
• ELO RATING SYSTEM - method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess.
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• EMANUEL LASKER - (1868-1941). German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years (from 1894 to 1921). In his prime Lasker was one of the most dominant champions, and he is still generally regarded as one of the strongest players ever.
• Encyclopedia of Chess Openings (ECO) - classification system for the opening moves in chess. It is presented as a five-volume book collection (now also a computer database) describing chess openings.
• Fast Chess | Speed Chess - a type of chess game in which each side is given less time to make their moves than under the normal tournament time controls of 60 to 180 minutes per player.
• FIDE | FÉdÉration Internationale des Échecs - since 1950. World Chess Federation. Awards several performance-based titles to chess players. Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and norms (performance benchmarks in competitions including other titled players). Once awarded, FIDE titles are held for life.
• FIDE publishes the official statement on the Carlsen - Niemann case - "After Hans Niemann defeated the World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen in the third round of the Sinquefield Cup 2022, Carlsen decided to withdraw from the tournament without detailed explanations. Rumors that Magnus Carlsen suspected Niemann was cheating started spreading over social media and the controversy over the Niemann - Carlsen case is not stopping. While Niemann spoke on the case on several occasions, the World Chess Champion gave his first interview on the case two days ago saying that cheaters should not be taken lightly either online or over the board."
• FIDE’s Fair-Play Commission forms the investigatory panel for the Carlsen - Niemann controversy - "After 19-year-old American grandmaster Hans Niemann defeated Magnus Carlsen in the third round of the Sinquefield Cup 2022, the World Chess Champion decided to withdraw from the event. Rumors that Magnus Carlsen suspected Niemann was cheating started spreading over social medias and the “Carlsen – Niemann” controversy is the top news in mass medias ever since. Two weeks later, Magnus refused to play against Hans Niemann at the Julius Baer Generation Cup and resigned his game after only two played moves. After weeks of silence, Magnus Carlsen published the official statement on the case saying that he believes Niemann cheated more - and more recently - than he has publicly admitted."
• Fischer random chess - also known as Chess960, is a variation of the game of chess invented by former world chess champion Bobby Fischer. Fischer random chess employs the same board and pieces as classical chess, but the starting position of the pieces on the players' home ranks is randomized, following certain rules. The random setup makes gaining an advantage through the memorization of openings impracticable; players instead must rely more on their talent and creativity over the board.
• 'Flawless' Magnus Carlsen beats his great rival in battle of chess' big guns - "The battle of chess’ behemoths ended in victory for five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen, with the Norwegian beating Hikaru Nakamura to be crowned Airthings Masters champion."
• FranÇois-AndrÉ Danican Philidor - (1726-1795). Was a French composer and chess player. He is regarded as the best chess player of his age; his book Analyse du jeu des Échecs was considered a standard chess manual for at least a century. A well-known chess opening and a checkmate method are both named after him.
• Freestyle Chess plans 2025 global Tour for Carlsen & the world's top players - "The world No 1's impressive victory last week has put the random chess variant into the spotlight and its billionaire organiser plans to expand into all five continents next year."
• Garry Kasparov Unveils Chess Esports Masterclasses For Future Stars - "Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov may have retired from competition over 15 years ago, but that’s not stopping him from his desire to help create the champions of tomorrow - and at a time when chess esports are bigger than ever. Through his Kasparovchess platform - which Kasparov launched in April in conjunction with global media company Vivendi - the Russian grandmaster has announced an exclusive 55-part masterclass for his multimedia chess playing and content portal, adding to the puzzles, online matchmaking, news coverage, tutorials, articles, and documentaries already offered by the service."
• going out of book - "When players go out of book, they enter territory where they must think on their own and respond to and engage their opponents independently, strategically, intuitively, decisively. They no longer simply algorithmically follow what has been done before. They have to create and improvise, and this is what makes chess such a gripping human enterprise."
• GRANDMASTER - Wikipedia.
• Grandmasters complain London's World Chess Championship logo looks like the Kama Sutra - The Telegraph.
• Hans Niemann - (born June 20, 2003) is an American chess grandmaster and Twitch streamer. He was awarded the Grandmaster title by FIDE on January 22, 2021. In July 2021, he won the World Open chess tournament in Philadelphia. Niemann first entered the Top 100 Junior players list at position 88 on March 1, 2019. As of September 2022, he is the 6th highest-rated Junior in the world and 45th overall. In the third round of the 2022 Sinquefield Cup, Niemann defeated Carlsen again with the black pieces, playing the Nimzo-Indian Defence. Niemann's live rating surpassed 2700 for the first time with this win. Carlsen withdrew from the Cup the next day, announcing his decision in a cryptic tweet containing a video of Portuguese football manager José Mourinho saying: "If I speak I'm in big trouble, and I don't want to be in big trouble". While Carlsen himself made no direct claims, his tweet along with the ramped up security measures at the tournament the day after his loss implied there was an accusation that Niemann was cheating over the board, an accusation denied by Niemann and several commentators.
• Hans Niemann chosen to lead USA at World Team Championship - "The 19-year-old will play at Jerusalem in his first event since he launched his $100m lawsuit against Magnus Carlsen and others."
• Hans Niemann closes on world top 20 as US star impresses in London - "The ambitious American leads narrowly after four games in his five-day match against the England No 1, Nikita Vitiugov, which includes classical, rapid and blitz sections."
• Hans Niemann faces credibility test in St Louis as cheating saga continues - "The controversial 19-year-old won his opening round at the US championship, then described the game as ‘beautiful’."
• Hans Niemann probably cheated in more than 100 chess games, investigation finds - "The 72-page report, conducted by Chess.com and initially reviewed by the Wall Street Journal, found that Niemann 'likely received illegal assistance in more than 100 online games' as recently as 2020, including in events where prize money was at stake."
• Hans Niemann reinstated by Chess.com, vows to become ‘best chess player in the world’ after alleged cheating scandal - "American chess grandmaster Hans Niemann has been reinstated by Chess.com following the conclusion of a legal dispute between Niemann, Magnus Carlsen and the online platform, among others. In June, a US judge dismissed a $100 million defamation lawsuit filed by Niemann against Chess.com, five-time world champion Carlsen, and popular streamer and player Hikaru Nakamura."
• Hans Niemann struggles in US championship amid beefed up security - "The controversial 19-year-old began well in St Louis, but now he is among the tailenders."
• He’s the Bad Boy of Chess. But Did He Cheat? - "An American teenager, Hans Niemann, defeated Magnus Carlsen, the world’s best chess player. Then Mr. Carlsen accused his opponent of cheating. It’s either overdue justice or paranoia."
• He's the prodigy who became an all-time great. Now he wants to revolutionize chess - "Magnus Carlsen: 'My emotions are usually outside my body and that's not what you usually connect to a chess player.'"
• Here's how to play Facebook Messenger's secret chess game - The Verge.
• How do you even cheat in chess? - "Artificial intelligence and Morse code. It’s the story that has rocked chess and shown no sign of abating. The cheating scandal which has engulfed the sport, involving five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen, is all anyone is talking about."
• How good is ChatGPT at playing chess? (Spoiler: you’ll be impressed) - "Although ChatGPT is a powerful language model, it cannot play chess. This is because ChatGPT is a text-based model and does not have the ability to understand or interpret visual information like a board game. Additionally, playing chess requires a high level of strategic thinking and decision-making, which goes beyond the scope of ChatGPT’s capabilities."
• How The Queen's Gambit became Netflix's unlikeliest hit of the year - "The glossy series on an orphaned girl’s inexorable rise to chess stardom is now the streamer’s most-watched scripted limited series of all time."
• How to get good at chess - "You don’t have to be a polymath like Beth Harmon in The Queen’s Gambit to improve your game."
• I never thought I was a chess person. Then Covid came, and I've found the game cathartic - "Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit has thousands of people interested in chess. The game is a great personal comfort for me."
• ICC | Internet Chess Club - founded in 1995. Commercial Internet chess server devoted to the play and discussion of chess and chess variants. ICC currently has over 30,000 subscribing members.
• In Just 4 Hours, Google's AI Mastered All The Chess Knowledge in History - Science Alert.
• India gripped as teen chess prodigy prepares to take on Magnus Carlsen for world title - "Millions in India will be cheering on the teen chess prodigy known as Pragg as he takes on Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen for the title of World Chess Champion on Tuesday. Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, 18, is set to square off against the five-time world champion in Baku, Azerbaijan after defeating Fabiano Caruana in a tense match to secure his place in the final."
• Iranian chess player ‘moving to Spain’ after competing without headscarf - "Sara Khadem and family plan to set up residence in an unnamed Spanish city, according to reports."
• Judit Polgar still an icon nearly a decade after retirement - "The Hungarian gave up competitive play in 2014 but her online commentaries show that she is as sharp as ever."
• King of chess Magnus Carlsen calls in Microsoft to fight off Russian hackers - The Telegraph.
• King's Gambit - chess opening that begins with the moves: e4, e5 & f4. White offers a pawn to divert the black e-pawn. If Black accepts the gambit, White has two main plans. The first is to play d4 and Bxf4, regaining the gambit pawn with central domination.
• Knock-out Tournament - definition & explanation.
• KRIEGSPIEL - Wikipedia.
• Lewis chessmen piece bought for £5 in 1964 could sell for £1m - "Missing walrus tusk warrior was purchased in Edinburgh and stored in a drawer."
• List of chess openings - Wikipedia.
• List of chess world champions - Wikipedia.
• List of chess world championship matches - Wikipedia.
• Long-lost medieval chess piece fetches $929K at auction - CNN style.
• Lost chess piece bought for $6 worth over $1M - "Lost Lewis Chessman worth over $1 million found in drawer."
• Magnus Carlsen - 'The Mozart of Chess.' Norwegian chess grandmaster, reigning World Chess Champion and the No. 1 ranked player in the world. His peak rating is 2872, the highest in history.
• Magnus Carlsen & Hans Niemann: The cheating row that's blowing up the chess world - "When Magnus Carlsen and Hans Niemann sat down to play each other earlier this month in the third round of chess's Sinquefield Cup, few could have predicted the chaos that would unfold."
• Magnus Carlsen beats Hans Niemann in first match since infamous cheating scandal - "World No. 1 Carlsen defeated Niemann 17.5-12.5 in their semifinal at the 2024 Speed Chess Championship in Paris on Friday in a match affected by issues with the technology used to play on."
• Magnus Carlsen becomes triple world champion for the third time in his career - "Magnus Carlsen won both the World Rapid and World Blitz chess titles in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in the latest landmark of his glittering career. The 32-year-old Norwegian is now the holder of all three world chess championship titles - in Classical, Rapid and Blitz - for the third time in his career, while no other player has ever won both the Rapid and Blitz titles in the same year."
• Magnus Carlsen breaks record for longest unbeaten streak in chess history - "World’s No 1 chess player makes it 111 games without defeat. Carlsen eclipses record set by Russia’s Sergei Tiviakov in 2005."
• Magnus Carlsen enjoys stunning undefeated win over reigning US blitz champion Fabiano Caruana - "Each match at the tournament consists of three segments; 90 minutes of 5+1 blitz games - in which, players get five minutes per game with one second per move increases - 60 minutes of 3+1 blitz games, and 30 minutes of 1+1 bullet games - the fastest form of chess, with one minute per player with one second increments. Players get one point for winning a game, and the player with the most points wins."
• Magnus Carlsen gets revenge on 16-year-old Iranian sensation in world's richest online chess tournament - "A few days after he was shocked by 16-year-old chess sensation Alireza Firouzja, world champion Magnus Carlsen has enacted his revenge on the Iranian."
• Magnus Carlsen hitting $10,000,000 in winnings - "Here is the complete list of all-time major event millionaires through December 31, 2023."
• Magnus Carlsen in Olympiad action as world No 1 targets record rating - "The newly retired world champion will aim for a high score at Chennai to boost his chances of reaching the 2900 target which has twice narrowly eluded him."
• Magnus Carlsen is closing in on his target of a 2900 rating - The Guardian.
• Magnus Carlsen leaves Sinquefield Cup amid Niemann chess ‘cheating’ furore - "World champion withdraws from tournament after defeat. Hikarua Nakamura says Niemann ‘probably cheating’."
• Magnus Carlsen may opt against world chess defence due to lack of motivation - "Magnus Carlsen says he is ready to shock the chess world by giving up his world championship title – because defending it no longer motivates him. The five-time world champion retained the classical title in emphatic style in Dubai last week, crushing his Russian challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi 7½-3½, but now says he has other priorities."
• Magnus Carlsen publicly accuses Hans Niemann of more cheating - "Carlsen believes Niemann ‘has cheated more than he admitted’. Niemann says he is now ‘clean’ after cheating as a teenager."
• Magnus Carlsen retains world chess title after final Ian Nepomniachtchi blunder - "The imperious Magnus Carlsen confirmed his long-held place as the best chess player on the planet on Friday by retaining the world championship with a fourth win over Ian Nepomniachtchi in the 11th encounter of their showdown in Dubai."
• Magnus Carlsen suffers 'unacceptable' shock defeat - "Magnus Carlsen bemoans ‘awful day of chess’ as he blunders his way to defeat."
• Magnus Carlsen will not defend his World Chess Championship title in 2023 - "Magnus Carlsen says he will not defend his World Chess Championship title in 2023 against Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi. The five-times winner is not retiring but promising 'to be the best in the world' even if that means taking no part in chess’s showpiece event."
• Magnus Carlsen wins tournament as he makes return to chess without world champion title - "Magnus Carlsen returned to the highest levels of chess and winning ways after he enjoyed a break from the sport to play poker. In his absence, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren contested Carlsen’s abdicated chess world title, with Liren eventually being crowned the new world champion last month."
• Magnus Carlsen’s epochal world title triumph proves an antidote to perfection - "The game of chess itself was the ultimate winner as Carlsen and Nepomniachtchi provided a human drama in the age of supercomputers."
• Magnus Carlsen’s spectre looms as Ding & Nepomniachtchi launch title match - "Two of the world’s top three have descended on Astana for the most prestigious title in chess, but the absence of the third has largely neutered the stakes of the sport’s showcase event."
• Magnus Carlsen's tense victory sends interest in chess soaring - "Intensity of championship and ease of watching the game online is bringing it to a wider audience."
• Manhattan Chess Club - was the second-oldest chess club in the United States (next to the Mechanics' Institute Chess Club in San Francisco) before it closed. The club was founded in 1877 and started with three dozen men, eventually increasing to hundreds, with women allowed as members from 1938. The club moved to several locations over the years. It closed in 2002.
• Marshall Chess Club - in Greenwich Village, New York City, is one of the oldest chess clubs in the United States. The club was formed in 1915.
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• Mechanical Turk - was a fraudulent chess-playing machine constructed in the late 18th century. From 1770 until its destruction by fire in 1854 it was exhibited by various owners as an automaton, though it was eventually revealed to be an elaborate hoax.
• Pawn Sacrifice - American biographical thriller film directed by Edward Zwick and written by Steven Knight. The film stars Tobey Maguire as Bobby Fischer, Liev Schreiber as Boris Spassky, and Lily Rabe as Joan Fischer.
• Praggnanandhaa: How India is emerging as a chess powerhouse - "The frail-looking 16-year-old boy is the third Indian to beat world champion Magnus Carlsen in a tournament."
• Queen's Gambit: Meet the real Beth Harmon - "Judit Polgár became a chess grandmaster at 15 and beat the best just like the 'Queen's Gambit' protagonist Beth Harmon."
• Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa: After beating Magnus Carlsen, Indian teen chess sensation's first thought was to catch up on sleep - "While most people slumber, one 16-year-old sits back in his chair, covering his mouth with his hand in shock. It's dawning on him the magnitude of what he's just done. Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa has just stunned Magnus Carlsen, grabbing a seat at the top table of the sport by beating chess' most dominant player."
• Report Accuses Chess Grandmaster of Understating Extent of His Cheating - "Hans Niemann, who was publicly accused by grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, has been banned from the platform Chess.com."
• Round-Robin Tournament - definition & explanation.
• RULES OF CHESS - Wikipedia.
• Saint Louis Chess Club - since 2008. Chess venue located in the Central West End in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. It has been host to the U.S. Championships and U.S. Women's Championships since 2009 and the Junior Closed Championship has been held there since 2010. Since 2013, the STLCC has held the Sinquefield Cup, a super-GM tournament consisting of many of the world's strongest grandmasters. In 2014, the tournament was the strongest in history (by rating), with an average rating of 2802. In fact St. Louis is the Chess Capital of the U.S. and is home to the three most prestigious invitational chess tournaments. So, consider adding chess to your family fun tradition this year.
• Sara Khadem: Top Iran chess player exiled for refusing headscarf - "When one of the world's most promising chess players, 25-year-old Sara Khadem, decided to play at an international tournament without her headscarf, in solidarity with the protest movement in Iran, she thought a warning would be the worst that would happen to her."
• 'Star Wars' holographic chess game is nearly a reality - engadget.
• Stockfish vs. ChatGPT: We let both AI's Play a Game of Chess - "In the name of chess science, we wanted to see what would happen if we let the strongest publicly available chess engine (Stockfish 15.1) play chess against the new OpenAI chat bot called Chat GPT." Chessily.
• The Grandmaster Who Got Twitch Hooked on Chess - "Hikaru Nakamura is the top-ranked blitz chess player in the world - and his channel has seen a meteoric rise as he coaches streamers in the ancient game."
• The Tortured Faces of International Tournament Chess Players - Wired.
• This wooden globe chess board uses magnets to change up the game - The Verge.
• Tournament categories - FIDE classifies tournaments according to the average Elo rating of the participants.
• USCF | THE UNITED STATES CHESS FEDERATION
• WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP - Wikipedia.
• WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 1972 - American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer and Soviet-French chess grandmaster Boris Spassky playing for the world championsship in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1972.
• WORLD CHESS FEDERATION | FIDE - since 1950.
• Zugzwang - definition & explanation.

Chess Sets

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• Agresti Briar Chess Set - classic chess set in Elm and Mahogany.
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• Baccarat Harcourt Chessgame - celebrates its 250th anniversary. Limited edition: 50 sets.
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• Byblos Chessboard - since 1967. "The Chessboard by Au Départ is an elegant and modern hand-crafted design object, part-profiled in calf leather. It comprises a handmade coated wood chessboard, a complete set of silver and brass finished game pieces, with several soft black velvet storage compartments, a notebook and a pen. The glossy orange colour was created exclusively for our collection. Heritage monogram coated cotton canvas. Suede Lining. Leather detail. Width: 43.2cm. Depth: 43.2cm. Height: 8.5cm. Made in Italy."
• Chess sets at Amazon.com - as of October 15, 2022: 2,000+ results.
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• ELIZABETH GANN COLLECTIONS - "The Source for Premium Collectible Chess Sets." Chess sets designed by: Oleg Raikis and Piero Benzoni; rare & limited editions, glass, damascene and antique sets.
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• Harrods - Chess Sets.
• Josef Hartwig chess set (1924) - Manufacturer: Bauhaus, Weimar. MoMA.
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• LINLEY - Classic Games Table - Walnut: £24,500.
• PIERO BENZONI - "Piero Benzoni Expensive Luxury Chess Sets." Designed by Piero Benzoni, the Historical and Artistic Chess Collection themed chess sets are limited production, expensive themed chess sets, in gold plated and silver plated solid bronze. Each of these luxurious expensive chess sets is completely handmade and signed by the sculptor. Using the finest materials, the artistry in these luxury chess sets reveal an unrivaled attention to detail and a mastery of lost wax casting. Buy these luxurious expensive chess sets in complete chess sets or separately in your choice of chess pieces, chessboards, and chess tables.
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• RALPH LAUREN - chess sets.
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• STEVE VIGAR DESIGN - "Preserve a piece of your favorite city with this handcrafted chess set by woodworker Steve Vigar. Made of solid zebra wood and whangee (yeah, we’re not sure either), the back row pieces feature some of the most famous buildings of San Francisco, Chicago and New York, while individual pawns pay homage to each metropolis’s residential architectural styles. Pieces can be made in light and dark wood."
• WILLIAM YEOWARD - chess table.

Online Chess

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• CHESS24.COM - "Play, Learn & Watch Live Tournaments." Internet chess server in English and nine other languages, established in 2014 by German grandmaster Jan Gustafsson and Enrique Guzman. Among people collaborating with chess24 are World Champions, Grandmasters and International Masters including Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Peter Svidler, Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Francisco Vallejo Pons, David Anton Guijarro, Dorsa Derakhshani, Lawrence Trent, Sopiko Guramishvili, and Hou Yifan.
• CHESS.COM - since 2005. "Play Chess for Free on the #1 Site!" Internet chess server, news website and social networking website.[3] The site has a freemium model in which some features are available for free, and others for accounts with subscriptions. Live online chess can be played against other users at daily, rapid, blitz or bullet time controls, with a number of chess variants available. Chess versus a chess engine, computer analysis, chess puzzles and teaching resources are also offered. 57 languages. Users (2022): 77 million+.
• CHESS.NET - since 1996. "A creative chess online community."
• Chess Games - since 1998. "Online chess database and community." Founded on an extensive database of historical chess games combined with discussion forums, Chessgames.com is the internet's first and foremost chess community, where players of every skill level are encouraged to participate. From novices to grandmasters, all members can learn from those who are stronger players, while guiding those who are less experienced.
• INTERNET CHESS CLUB | ICC - since 1995. "The longest running, most popular & hands down best place to play chess on the Internet." Play with people from around the world. Improve with a brand new Learning Center. Watch thousands of top-quality video lessons. Learn from the world’s best masters. Impromptu tournaments and live event coverage. Best Support anywhere!