GM Kateryna Lagno defeated IM Vaishali R in the semifinals of the FIDE Chess.com 2022 Women’s Speed Chess Championship on Wednesday. Lagno’s experience faced off against Vaishali’s fighting spirit to produce a match of many dynamic battles. Blitz 5|1: Lagno 6-3 Vaishali Lagno won the first game convincingly, gaining powerful pressure on the queenside and …
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In the weeks before the FIDE presidential elections on August 7, official candidate GM Andrii Baryshpolets and his intended Deputy President GM Peter Heine Nielsen are fighting an uphill battle. Campaigning with limited resources, the duo advocates that the strong Russian influence in the chess world should not be accepted as a given. In an …
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The fifth round of the Candidates Tournament in Madrid has concluded with four draws — some pretty quick and painless, others more hard-fought and drawn out. Daily, Lichess is providing a broadcast of the games played in real-time. We also have a selection of annotated games by GM Nijat Abasov and video recaps by WGM-elect …
GM Dmitry Andreikin won week 17 of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase. He defeated GM Jeffery Xiong in the final blitz tiebreaker. GMs Levon Aronian and Olexandr Bortnyk made it to the semifinals. GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Alexey Sarana, Klementy Sychev, and Subramaniyam Bharath finished in the quarterfinals. Participating in the event were 56 competitors—now …
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