The U.S. Chess Championships are taking place on October 5-19 at the Saint Louis Chess Club. Both the open and the women’s tournaments are 14-player round robins. Wesley So and Fabiano Caruana head the field in the open, while Irina Krush and Carissa Yip are the top seeds among the women. | Follow the games live with expert commentary starting at 20.15 CEST (14.15 ET, 23.45 IST)
Ten international chess superstars are battling it out over the board on September 13-16 at the Champions Showdown Chess 9LX extravaganza. The field includes living legend Garry Kasparov, an in-form Alireza Firouzja and defending champion Leinier Dominguez. | Follow the games live starting at 21.00 CEST (15.00 ET, 0.30 IST)
FIDE Chess for Protection is a project that helps refugees learn the game of chess and acquire new important life skills, socialize, and release stress through it. Second report: Being an arbiter is not a solitary journey, it is more of a team effort. We cooperate in tournaments, share experience, get together in seminars and workshops. An arbiter is a member of a pack, not a lone wolf. Read about this in the latest ECU Magazine. | Photo FIDE
An action-packed third day of action at the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz tournament left French representatives Alireza Firouzja and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the shared lead going into the blitz section of the event. Sam Shankland beat Ian Nepomniachtchi and Hikaru Nakamura to climb to sole third place, while Shakhriyar Mamedyarov scored three wins in a row to return to a fifty-percent score after a subpar performance in the first six rounds. | Photos: Grand Chess Tour / Lennart Ootes
In September 2021, a pilot project of FIDE/UNCHR, Girls Club ‘Chess for Protection’ − Kakuma 2021/2022, was launched by the World Chess Federa