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Paris Freestyle Chess Grand Slam
The Paris Freestyle Chess Grand Slam was a Chess960 Chess tournament, tournament that takes place in Paris, France from 7 April to 14 April 2025. It was the second leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour, a series of Chess960 tournaments being held throughout 2025. Background After winning the Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam, first leg, Vincent Keymer went into the event as the tour leader. However, in terms of classical FIDE rankings at the time of the event, he ranks last among the qualified players. Regulation changes While the Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam, first leg only had 10 participants playing in the main event, the number of participants was increased to 12 for the second leg. Nevertheless, only the top eight players after the Round-robin tournament, round-robin stage will qualify for the main knockout bracket, while the remaining four players will play for positions 9–12 in a separate bracket. Format The event began with a Rapid chess, rap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnus Carlsen
Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen (born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster. Carlsen is a five-time World Chess Championship, World Chess Champion, five-time World Rapid Chess Championship, World Rapid Chess Champion, and the reigning eight-time World Blitz Chess Championship, World Blitz Chess Champion. He has held the position in the FIDE world rankings, FIDE world chess rankings since 1 July 2011 and trails only Garry Kasparov in List of FIDE chess world number ones#Player statistics, time spent as the highest-rated player in the world. His peak Elo rating system, rating of 2882 is the List of chess players by peak FIDE rating, highest in history. He also holds the record for the List of world records in chess#Longest unbeaten streak, longest unbeaten streak at the elite level in classical chess at 125 games. A chess prodigy, Carlsen finished first in the C group of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament#2004, Corus chess tournament shortly after h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glossary Of Chess
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; for a list of terms general to board games, see Glossary of board games. A B C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Fedoseev
Vladimir Vasilyevich Fedoseev (; born 16 February 1995) is a Russian chess grandmaster playing for Slovenia. He is the reigning European champion in Rapid chess and Chess960. He competed in the Chess World Cup in 2015, 2017, 2021 and 2023. Career Fedoseev tied for second place in the Chigorin Memorial 2010 tournament, finishing seventh on tiebreak. In 2011, Fedoseev won the under 18 section of the Russian Youth Championships and finished runner-up in the same division at the World Youth Chess Championship. In the same year, he played for the gold medal-winning Russian team in the World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad in Kocaeli, Turkey. In 2012, Fedoseev tied for first place with Alexei Shirov in the Paul Keres Memorial rapid tournament in Tallinn, finishing second after playoffs. In 2013, in Budva, Montenegro, he won the under-18 division of the European Youth Chess Championship, and also won the blitz and rapid events in the under-18 category. Fedoseev won the bronze medal at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pranesh M
Pranesh Munirethinam is an Indian chess grandmaster. Chess career Pranesh is coached by R.B. Ramesh. Pranesh obtained his first GM norm in the 18th Delhi GM Open 2020 by defeating Stanislav Bogdanovich, Adam Tukhaev, Visakh N. R., and Van Huy Nguyen, and drawing against Diptayan Ghosh, Sahaj Grover, Kirill Stupak, and Nodirbek Yakubboev. In October 2022, Pranesh scored an upset win over Aravindh Chithambaram in the second round of the Asian Continental Chess Championship 2022. In January 2023, Pranesh won the Rilton Cup held in Stockholm (the first international tournament of the 2023 FIDE Circuit) to become India's 79th Grandmaster. In May 2023, Pranesh played for the Indian Yogis in the 2023 PRO Chess League The Professional Rapid Online Chess League (PRO Chess League and abbreviated PCL) was an online rapid chess league operated by Chess.com. It was preceded by the United States Chess League, which announced in 2016 that it would be renamed, reforma .... References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rauf Mamedov
Rauf Mamedov (; born 26 April 1988) is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster and a four-time national champion. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2015. Career Born in Baku, Mamedov started playing chess at the age of seven. In 2004, he won the Under 14 section of the European Youth Chess Championships. In the same year, he became a Grandmaster (GM), following his victory in the Dubai Open. Mamedov won the Azerbaijani championship in 2006, 2008, 2015 and 2025. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2015. In 2009, he tied for 1st-3rd with Yuriy Kuzubov and Dmitry Andreikin in the category 16 SPICE Cup tournament at Lubbock, Texas. Mamedov won the Corsica Masters blitz tournament in 2011. In 2015 Mamedov won the European Blitz Chess Championship in Minsk. In 2016, he won the men's blitz chess event of the IMSA Elite Mind Games in Huai'an, China. In 2013, Mamedov won the U.S. Masters Chess Championship. In February 2018, he participated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nguyễn Ngọc Trường Sơn
Nguyễn Ngọc Trường Sơn (born 23 February 1990) is a Vietnamese chess player. The second-best player in Vietnam, he is the youngest Vietnamese ever to become a Grandmaster, and one of the youngest grandmasters in the history of the game, having qualified for the title at the age of fourteen. Chess career Trường Sơn learned to play chess at the age of 3. He won a gold medal at the World Youth Championships in the Under 10 category in 2000. In 2006, Trường Sơn won the Asian Junior (under 20) Championship in New Delhi, on tiebreak over Shyam Sundar M. after they both finished on 7/9 points. In August 2014, he, Lê Quang Liêm, and other Vietnamese chess players participated in 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromsø, Norway. With +7=3-0 result, Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son won the gold medal on Board Two thanks to his rating performance of 2843. He repeated this feat at the 2018 Chess Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia. Playing board 2, he again won the gold medal with an identi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amin Tabatabaei
Seyyed Mohammad Amin Tabatabaei (; born 5 February 2001) is an Iranian chess grandmaster. He has represented Iran in three Chess Olympiads (2018, 2022 and 2024). Chess career Born in 2001, Tabatabaei earned his international master (IM) title in 2015 and was awarded his grandmaster (GM) title by FIDE in April 2018. In February 2018, he participated in the Aeroflot Open. He finished seventeenth out of ninety-two, scoring 5½/9 (+5–3=1), earning an additional GM norm in the process. Tabatabaei competed in the Asian Chess Championship in December 2018. He finished second on 6½/9 (+4–0=5), and thus qualified for the Chess World Cup 2019. He won the Biel Masters in July 2019 with 7/9 (+6–1=2) and Josef Kupper Memorial in August 2019 with 6/7 (+5–0=2). At the Chess World Cup in September, he defeated Bassem Amin in the first round, then was eliminated by Jeffery Xiong in the second round. He qualified again for the Chess World Cup 2021 where, ranked 86th, he eliminated B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiss-system Tournament
A Swiss-system tournament is a non-eliminating tournament format that features a fixed number of rounds of competition, but considerably fewer than for a round-robin tournament; thus each competitor (team or individual) does not play all the other competitors. Competitors meet one-on-one in each round and are paired using a set of rules designed to ensure that each competitor plays opponents with a similar running score, but does not play the same opponent more than once. The winner is the competitor with the highest aggregate points earned in all rounds. With an even number of participants, all competitors play in each round. The Swiss system is used for competitions in which there are too many entrants for a full round-robin (all-play-all) to be feasible, and eliminating any competitors before the end of the tournament is undesirable. In contrast, all-play-all is suitable if there are a small number of competitors; whereas a Single-elimination tournament, single-elimination (knoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess Title
A chess title is a title regulated by a chess governing body and bestowed upon players based on their performance and rank. Such titles are usually granted for life. The international chess governing body FIDE grants several titles, the most prestigious of which is Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster; many national chess federations also grant titles such as "National Master". More broadly, the term "master" can refer to any highly skilled chess player. Over-the-board chess In general, a ''chess master'' is a player of such skill that they can usually beat most amateurs. Among chess players, the term is often abbreviated to ''master''. The establishment of the world chess body, Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE), saw the creation of titles superior to the "national master" titles. In 1950, FIDE created the titles "Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster" and "International Master", the requirements for which were increasingly formalized over the years. In 1978, FIDE created the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess
Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to as White and Black in chess, "White" and "Black", each control sixteen Chess piece, pieces: one king (chess), king, one queen (chess), queen, two rook (chess), rooks, two bishop (chess), bishops, two knight (chess), knights, and eight pawn (chess), pawns, with each type of piece having a different pattern of movement. An enemy piece may be captured (removed from the board) by moving one's own piece onto the square it occupies. The object of the game is to "checkmate" (threaten with inescapable capture) the enemy king. There are also several ways a game can end in a draw (chess), draw. The recorded history of chess goes back to at least the emergence of chaturanga—also thought to be an ancesto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Online Chess
Online chess is chess that is played over the Internet, allowing players to play against each other. This was first done asynchronously through PLATO and email in the 1970s. In 1992, the Internet Chess Server facilitated live online play via telnet, and inspired several other telnet-based systems around the world. Web-based platforms became popular in the 2010s and grew considerably amid the COVID-19 pandemic, alongside a trend of livestreaming chess. History Asynchronous Online chess has existed in various forms including PLATO and play-by-email since the dawn of the Internet in the 1970s. Chess servers Internet chess servers were the first way to play live chess against a human opponent via the internet. In 1992, Michael Moore and Richard Nash developed the American Internet Chess Server (ICS), which allowed users to connect via telnet. Graphical interfaces were developed to improve upon the text-only experience. In 1994, developer Daniel Sleator, who improved the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vidit Gujrathi In 2024 (cropped)
Vidit Gujrathi (born 24 October 1994) is an Indian chess grandmaster. Gujrathi attained the title of grandmaster in January 2013, becoming the 30th player from India to do so. He is the fourth Indian player to have crossed the Elo rating of 2700. He is a double gold medalist at the Chess Olympiad. He is also a silver medalist at the Asian Games. He became the third Indian to qualify for the Candidates tournament by winning Grand Swiss 2023. Early life Vidit Santosh Gujrathi was born in Nashik to Santosh Gujrathi and Nikita Gujrathi, who are doctors. He did his early schooling at Fravashi Academy and was coached in chess from an early age. Career 2006–2017 In 2006, he finished 2nd in the Asian Youth Championships in the U12 category, thus receiving the title of FIDE Master. In 2008, he won the World Youth Chess Championship in the Open U14 section, the first Indian to do so. He scored 9 points out of a possible 11, clinching his final norm to become an International Maste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
