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Prague Chess Festival
The Prague International Chess Festival, abbreviated as PICF, is an annual chess tournament that takes place in Prague, Czech Republic, since 2019. It consists of several separate groups including Masters, Challengers, and Futures (organized under the Round-robin tournament, round-robin system), an open tournament (held using the Swiss-system tournament, Swiss system), and a series of side tournaments. The winner of Challengers group receives an invitation to the Masters group the following year, while the winner of the open tournament receives an invitation to the Challengers group. The festival is organized by the Nový Bor Chess Club and the playing venue is the Don Giovanni Hotel Prague. Participants and winners The average rating of the Masters group is usually around 2700 and the average rating of the Challengers group is about 2550. The tournament has featured a number of participants of the Candidates Tournament, including Alireza Firouzja, Richárd Rapport, Vidit Gujr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Ju Wenjun
Ju Wenjun (; born 31 January 1991) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. She is the reigning five-time Women's World Champion, the reigning Women's World Blitz Chess Champion, and a two-time Women's World Rapid Chess Champion. In March 2017, she became the fifth woman to achieve a rating of 2600. She first won the title of Women's World Chess Champion in May 2018. She then defended her title in November 2018, 2020, 2023, and 2025. Career Ju started learning to play chess at the age of seven. In December 2004, Ju Wenjun placed third in the Asian Women's Chess Championship in Beirut. This result qualified her to play in her first Women's World Chess Championship in 2006. She competed in this event also in 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015 and 2017. She won the Women's Chinese Chess Championship in 2010 and 2014. In July 2011 she won the Hangzhou Women Grandmaster Chess Tournament undefeated with a score of 6½/9 points, ahead of the then women's world champion Hou Yifan. In October 2011 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nodirbek Yakubboev
Nodirbek Yakubboev (; born 23 January 2002) is an Uzbek chess grandmaster. Career He has won the Uzbekistani Chess Championship three times; in 2016, 2018 and 2020. He came second in the Zone 3.4 Zonal Open Championship in 2021, qualifying for the Chess World Cup 2021. In 2022, he won the gold medal at the 44th Chess Olympiad in Chennai with the Uzbekistan team, playing in 2nd board, where he won the individual bronze medal, scoring eight points out of eleven and having a performance rating of . In 2023 he won the Qatar Masters tournament in a tie-break playoff against fellow Uzbek Nodirbek Abdusattorov. In June 2024, Yakubboev participated in the UzChess Cup Masters, finishing first ahead of Nodirbek Abdusattorov on tiebreaks. He scored 5½/9 (+2-0=7), winning the tournament as the bottom-seeded player. During the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2025 Yakubboev refused to shake hands with four female opponents "for religious reasons". He later apologized to Vaishali Rameshbabu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ediz Gurel
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Mateusz Bartel
Mateusz Bartel (born 3 January 1985) is a Polish chess Grandmaster. He won the Polish Chess Championship in 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2012. Career Bartel learnt to play the game at the age of 6 from his father when he and his younger brother were at home ill with chickenpox. Both Mateusz and his brother later entered the chess club "Polonia Warsaw". He won the under-18 European championship in 2003. In 2005 Bartel finished equal first with Zoltan Gyimesi in the inaugural EU Individual Open Chess Championship in Cork. In 2007, he tied for 1st–6th with Vitali Golod, Zahar Efimenko, Yuri Yakovich, Michael Roiz and Mikhail Kobalia in the 16th Monarch Assurance Isle of Man International tournament, as first on tie-break. In 2009 he came first at Prievidza. In February 2012, Bartel tied for 1st–3rd with Anton Korobov and Pavel Eljanov in the 11th Aeroflot Open, winning the prestigious event on tie-break. In August 2017, Bartel won the traditional Open (Master Tournament) at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Keymer
Vincent Keymer (born 15 November 2004) is a German chess grandmaster. He was the No.1 in the FIDE World Chess Ratings for Juniors in January 2024. Chess career Vincent Keymer was born in Mainz, Germany, a city that has a long history of hosting rapid tournaments and Chess960 tournaments. He learned chess from his parents at the age of five. In 2015 and 2017 he became European champion with the German U18 national chess team. When he was ten, Keymer was on the September 2015 cover of the German chess magazine ''Schach Magazin'', hailed as Germany's greatest talent since Emanuel Lasker. Garry Kasparov in 2016 referred to Keymer as "exceptional", and Keymer at 11 demonstrated his potential with an "impressive second prize" in a strong field in the Vienna Open tournament. In July 2017, Keymer obtained the third and final norm required for the title of International Master. He has been coached by Peter Leko of Hungary, who was himself once considered "the world's most promising pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic In The Czech Republic
The COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic was a part of the COVID-19 pandemic, worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). On 12 January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a novel coronavirus was the cause of a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, which was reported to the WHO on 31 December 2019. The first three confirmed cases in the Czech Republic were reported on 1 March 2020. On 12 March, the government declared a National state of emergency for the first time in the country's modern history. On 16 March, the country closed its borders, forbade the entry of foreigners without residence permits, and issued a nationwide curfew. While originally planned to be in effect until 24 March, the measures were later extended until 1 April and then again until the end of the state of emergency. This was extended by the Chamber of Deputies of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorden Van Foreest
Jhr. Jorden van Foreest (born 30 April 1999) is a Dutch chess grandmaster. He was Dutch Chess Champion in 2016, and won the Tata Steel Masters in 2021. Van Foreest is the No. 2 ranked Dutch player behind Anish Giri. Chess career Introduced to the game by his father, Van Foreest learned to play chess at the age of six but did not play regularly until he was nine. He graduated from the in 2018 and since then he has been a professional chess player.Jorden van Foreest: 'Ze nemen me nu écht serieus' RTV Noord 2013–2016 In 2013, Van Foreest won the European U14 Chess Championship with a score of 7.5/9 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Antón Guijarro
David Antón Guijarro (born 23 June 1995) is a Spanish chess grandmaster. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2013, at the age of 18. He has competed at two Chess Olympiads. Chess career Antón Guijarro won the Spanish championship eight times in various age groups and formats. He took the bronze medal at the 2012 European Youth Chess Championships, held in Prague, in the U16 category; the next year, he took silver in the World Youth Chess Championships in Al Ain in the U18 section. Antón Guijarro was awarded the title of International Master by FIDE in 2012 and progressed to the grandmaster title in 2013. In the 2014 European Individual Chess Championship, he won the silver medal, qualifying also for the FIDE World Cup 2015, and tied for second place in the European Blitz Championship. In the same year Antón Guijarro also won the Spanish Blitz Championship, held in Sabiote, finishing ahead of Spain's first ranking grandmaster, Francisco Vallejo Pons. In J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aravindh Chithambaram
Aravindh Chithambaram Veerappan (born 11 September 1999) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He won the Indian chess championships twice, in 2018 and 2019. Personal life Aravindh Chithambaram Veerappan was born on 11 September 1999 in Thirunagar, Madurai, Tamil Nadu. His father died when he was three and his mother worked as a Life Insurance Corporation agent to support the family. He learned to play chess at the age of seven from his paternal grandfather, who introduced him to the game in an attempt to quell his desires to constantly leave the house and play cricket with other boys. Chess career Aravindh won the Indian U19 Chess Championship at the age of 12. He competed in the World U14 Chess Championship in 2012, placing second to Kayden Troff. He won his first major tournament in 2013 when he scored 9/11 for a of 2728 at the Chennai Grandmaster International Open, defeating four grandmasters and two international masters in the process. This result earned him his first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nodirbek Abdusattorov
Nodirbek Abdusattorov (; born 18 September 2004) is an Uzbek chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he qualified for the grandmaster title at the age of 13 years, 1 month, and 11 days. FIDE awarded him the title in April 2018. He is Uzbekistan's highest-rated grandmaster and currently one of the best chess players in the world. Abdusattorov won the World Rapid Chess Championship 2021, becoming the youngest ever World Rapid Champion at 17 years and 3 months, and the youngest ever open world chess champion in any time format, breaking the record held by Magnus Carlsen, who was 18 years old when he won the World Blitz Chess Championship 2009. Abdusattorov defeated Ian Nepomniachtchi in a tiebreaker match to win the 2021 Championship. In 2022, Abdusattorov played board 1 for Uzbekistan at the 44th Chess Olympiad, where his team won gold and he won an individual silver medal for his board 1 performance. Abdusattorov also holds the record for the youngest player to attain a rating o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Robson
Ray Robson (born October 25, 1994) is an American chess grandmaster. He achieved the grandmaster title in 2010, at the time the youngest American player to be awarded the title by FIDE. Early life Robson was born in Guam to American father Gary Robson, a professor at the college of education (applied linguistics) at St. Petersburg College, and Chinese mother Yee-chen, a kindergarten teacher at Country Day School. They later moved to Largo, Florida and then Clearwater, Florida. As an only child, he learned chess from his father at age three. He attended public school for kindergarten, then a public school for the gifted in first grade, then from grades 2-5 he was at a private Montessori school. He started homeschooling in grade 6. Robson said as a child that he wanted to become a professional chess player, and his parents hoped for him to gain a chess scholarship to college. In April 2005, at the Super Nationals (the world's largest scholastic chess tournament) in Nashville, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
