New FIDE President Timur Turlov has backed keeping the Chess Federation of Russia suspended—on the same weekend a former ...
Timur Turlov was elected FIDE President today in Samarkand, winning the runoff 110–85 over Wadim Rosenstein after taking 96 ...
Bodhana Sivanandan arrived at the Chess Olympiad aged 11 and was asked to lead England from board one. She leaves Samarkand ...
Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, Becomes WGM And Scores Second IM Norm At Chess OlympiadBodhana Sivanandan arrived at the Chess ...
Everything You Need To KnowThe 2026 Chess Olympiad is over—and Uzbekistan and China are the champions. A record 400 teams descended on Samarkand for 11 rounds of extraordinary chess, controversy, ...
World Chess Weekly: Olympiad Fever Begins—But Without Magnus, And RussiaAug 7·4 min read World Chess Weekly: Naroditsky Honoured, But The Kramnik Controversy Just Isn't Going AwayJul 10·6 min read ...
Belarusian GM Denis Lazavik has launched an extraordinary series of attacks on fellow players, declaring it "madness" to ...
Delegates wake up, walk into a hall, mark a ballot, and there will be no more speeches — just the customary 15-minute slot before the elections. Tonight is the only night left to turn anyone, and the ...
In Samarkand, one candidate brought 30 people. Another brought five. A rumor says the two of them have a bet on the vote count. A dispatch by Ilya Merenzon, CEO of World Chess ...
World Champion Gukesh D has bounced back from briefly falling below 2700 with two straight wins at the Chess Olympiad in Samarkand.
Israel's Open and Women's teams have forfeited their Round 6 matches at the Chess Olympiad after the Netherlands and Bulgaria declined requests to change the playing time for Yom Kippur.
The most insightful document in the FIDE presidential race — until the votes are counted — is a prediction market with some traders on it. Let’s see if the market gets it right.
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