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FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020
The FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020 was an online chess tournament organised by the FIDE, Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and hosted by Chess.com. It was held between 24 July and 30 August. The event was organised after the 44th Chess Olympiad was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The final match between Russia and India was called off after several Indian team members experienced connectivity issues due to a global outage of Cloudflare servers; Russia and India were subsequently declared joint winners. The FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2021, second edition of the tournament was held in 2021. Participating teams Gazprom Brilliancy Prize Gazprom sponsored a Brilliancy (chess), brilliancy prize for the event, with the judges being 14 popular Streaming, streamers and YouTubers: Anna Cramling, Maria Emelianova, Jesse February, Anna-Maja Kazarian, Daniel King (chess player), Daniel King, Ayelen Martinez, Carlos Matamoros Franco, Daniel Naroditsky, Antonio Radić, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Sacrifice
In chess, a queen sacrifice is a move that sacrifices a queen in return for some compensation, such as a tactical or positional advantage. Queen sacrifice: real versus sham In his book ''The Art of Sacrifice in Chess'', Rudolf Spielmann distinguishes between ''real'' and ''sham'' sacrifices. A sham sacrifice leads to a and immediate benefit for the sacrificer, usually in the form of a quick checkmate (or perpetual check or stalemate if seeking a draw), or the recouping of the sacrificed after a forced . Since any amount of material can be sacrificed as long as checkmate will be achieved, the queen is not above being sacrificed as part of a combination. Possible reasons for a sham queen sacrifice include: * a forced checkmate after the opponent takes the queen; * more than adequate material compensation (say, a rook and two knights) after a forced continuation; * clearing the way for a pawn's promotion to a replacement queen; * the subsequent capture of the opponent's queen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queenside
This glossary of chess explains commonly used terms in chess, in alphabetical order. Some of these terms have their own pages, like ''fork'' and ''pin''. For a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; for a list of named opening lines, see List of chess openings; for a list of chess-related games, see List of chess variants. A B , "lightning"] A #fast chess, fast form of chess with a very short time limit, usually three or five minutes per player for the entire game. With the advent of electronic chess clocks, the time remaining is often incremented by one or two seconds per move.Schiller 2003, p. 398 C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slav Defense
The Slav Defense is a chess opening that begins with the moves: :1. d4 d5 :2. c4 c6 The Slav is one of the primary defenses to the Queen's Gambit. Although it was analyzed as early as 1590, it was not until the 1920s that it started to be explored extensively, although Steinitz essayed it in the first official World Chess Championship of 1886. Many masters of Slavic descent helped develop the theory of this opening, including Alapin, Alekhine, Bogoljubov, and Vidmar. The Slav received an exhaustive test during the two Alekhine–Euwe World Championship matches in 1935 and 1937. Played by 11 of the first 13 world champions, this defense was particularly favored by Euwe, Botvinnik, and Smyslov. More recently the Slav has been adopted by Anand, Ivanchuk, Lautier, Short, and other top grandmasters, including use in six of the eight games that Vladimir Kramnik played as Black in the 2006 World Championship (in the other two, he played the related Semi-Slav Defense) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexei Shirov
Alexei Shirov (, lv, Aleksejs Širovs; born 4 July 1972) is a Latvian and Spanish chess player. Shirov was ranked number two in the world in 1994. He won a match against Vladimir Kramnik in 1998 to qualify to play as challenger for the classical world championship match with Garry Kasparov; it never took place due to a lack of sponsorship. Career Shirov became the world under-16 champion in 1988 and was the runner-up at the World Junior Championship in 1990 (second on tiebreaks to Ilya Gurevich). In the same year, he achieved the title of Grandmaster. Shirov is the winner of numerous international tournaments: Biel 1991, Madrid 1997 (shared first place with Veselin Topalov), Ter Apel 1997, Monte Carlo 1998, Mérida 2000, Paul Keres Memorial Rapid Tournament in Tallinn (2004, 2005, 2011, 2012, 2013), Canadian Open Chess Championship 2005. He reached second on the FIDE rating list in January and July 1994, behind Anatoly Karpov, though Garry Kasparov was excluded from thos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danyyil Dvirnyy
Danyyil Dvirnyy (russian: Даниил Двирный, uk, Даніїл Двірний, 21 October 1990) is an Italian chess grandmaster. He is a two time Italian Champion and winner of the Italian Team Chess Championship. He represented Italian Team at Chess Olympiads three times from 2012 to 2016. Career Dvirnyy was born in Saint Petersburg in 1990 from Ukrainian parents. He moved in Italy in 2003, only then starting to play chess at a competitive level. In 2013, Dvirnyy won the Italian Chess Championship for the first time in Rome, where he led Sabino Brunello and Alberto David by one point. He also won the 4th International Chess Festival Forni di Sopra in Forni di Sopra. In 2015, he won the Italian Team Chess Championship with "Obiettivo Risarcimento Padova", club of Padua, and won the Italian Chess Championship for the second time, winning in the play-offs against Axel Rombaldoni and Alberto David. In 2018, he won two tournaments of the Italian Rapid Chess Champions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Williams (chess Player)
Simon Kim Williams (born 30 November 1979) is an English chess grandmaster and author who is best known under the pseudonym and Chess Server Nickname "GingerGM". Early career In 1993, he received his first international FIDE rating of 2255. During the same year he finished seventh in the European Under-14 Championship. Williams regularly participated in youth tournaments throughout the 1990s, finishing seventh in the 1997 European Under-20 Championship and finishing second in the Smith and Williamson Young Masters in 1998. Williams vs. Simons, Scarborough 1999 Williams competed in the 1999 British Chess Championship, held in Scarborough and won by Julian Hodgson. By the time of the tournament's later rounds, Williams had been eliminated from contention for the championship. He, therefore, chose to play the Hammerschlag (1.f3 e5 2.Kf2) in a game against Martin Simons, a very unusual and "inferior" opening which needlessly exposes White's king to immediate attack. Willia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiona Steil-Antoni
Fiona Steil-Antoni (born 10 January 1989) is a Luxembourgish chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman International Master by FIDE in 2010. Steil-Antoni won an individual gold medal at the Women's Chess Olympiad in 2006. Early life Born in Niederkorn, Luxembourg, Steil-Antoni was taught to play chess by her father when she was nine years old. She made it onto the national team after one year and was trained by Vlastimil Jansa from then on. Chess career Steil-Antoni has played for team Luxembourg in the 39th Chess Olympiad, the Women's Chess Olympiad, the 2011 European Team Chess Championship, and the European Small Nations Team Chess Championship. She was part of the team that won the bronze medal in the 2009 European Small Nations Team Chess Championship, held in Andorra la Vella. In 2006, at the Women's Chess Olympiad in Turin, she won the individual gold medal on board two thanks to a score of 10/12 points. She was awarded the Woman FIDE Master (WFM) title for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sagar Shah
Sagar Shah (born 28 January 1990) is an Indian chess player, journalist, commentator, and YouTuber who holds the title of International Master (IM). He is the co-founder of ChessBase India, along with his wife, Amruta Mokal. Outside of chess, he is a Chartered Accountant. Shah has a peak FIDE rating of 2468 with two Grandmaster (GM) norms. He was awarded the Shiv Chhatrapati Award in 2014. In 2020 Shah and famous standup comedian and chess streamer Samay Raina started streaming chess on YouTube YouTube is a global online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the second mo .... Shah started teaching chess to a group of comedians on stream. The duo have greatly contributed to the chess boom in India. References 1990 births Indian chess players Sportspeople from Mumbai Living people {{India-chess-b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Rosen (chess Player)
Eric Rosen (born September 3, 1993) is an American chess player. He was awarded the FIDE Master title in 2011 and the International Master title in 2015. Rosen began playing chess as a child with his father and brother and became the United States Chess Federation (USCF) K12 national champion in 2011. While attending the University of Illinois, Rosen was on the chess team that secured a spot at the President's Cup in 2013 and 2014. Rosen produces educational content on the online platforms Twitch and YouTube. While primarily known for his chess content, Rosen has also produced ''Scrabble'' livestreams and videos for his audience. Early life Rosen was born on September 3, 1993, and grew up in Skokie, Illinois. At the age of 7, he learned the rules of chess while on holiday in the Bahamas. Rosen's first major success came at age 9, when he won the Illinois 3rd Grade State Championship. Attending Niles North High School, Rosen led the school's chess team to two state championshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
