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WGP Series consists of six Women’s Grand Prix tournaments held over two years 2024-2025. A total of twenty players compete in the WGP series, as each Women Grand Prix event will have ten participants. Full information / All games live

This is the game Alina Kashlinskaya – Lela Javakhishvili from round 8 of the Tbilisi Grand Prix

Kashlinskaya – Javakhishvili, Tbilisi Grand Prix 2024

WGP Series consists of six Women’s Grand Prix tournaments held over two years 2024-2025. A total of twenty players compete in the WGP series, as each Women Grand Prix event will have ten participants. Full information / All games live

This is the game Alexandra Kosteniuk – Mariya Muzychuk from round 8 of the Tbilisi Grand Prix

Kosteniuk – Mariya Muzychuk, Tbilisi Grand Prix 2024

Hans Niemann has challenged three top players in an event branded as Hans Niemann vs the World series. After defeating Anish Giri in Utrecht, and later Nikita Vitiugov in London, now Niemann faces Etienne Bacrot from the 20th to the 22nd of August in Paris, France.

Niemann – Bacrot, game 6

This August 21, through a post by Malcolm Pein, the news that Kyrgyzstan Chess Federation submits resolution to restore the full membership rights of Russian Chess Federation was revealed to the chess world.

Today, the German Chess Federation, in an official press release, strongly objected such development.

The European Youth Classical Chess Championship 2024 is taking place in the Czech Republic, 21st August to 1st September with nearly 1250 participants representing 47 European federations.

Live: European Youth Chess 2024 live

Opening ceremony and R1 report by ECU

Fressinet – Moussard is the final of the French Chess Championship 2024. French Chess Championship 2024 is a 16-player knockout tournament held from the 16th to the 25th of August at the L’Alpe d’Huez, France. In the semi-finals Fressinet defeated Laurent Paoli after tiebreak. Extra games were needed for Moussard too, who defeated Romain Edouard.

The first game of the final is today at 14:30 CET.

The Women World Chess Cup will take place in Batumi, Georgia, from July 5 to 29, 2025. It will be a 103 player tournament with a total prize fund of US$676,250, with the first prize of US$50,000. Top participants (invited) will include the Women’s World Chess Champion, the top four at the Women’s World Cup, and the 2024 World Girls U20 champion.

The exact format of the Women World Chess Cup 2025 is to be announced.

F1 World Champion Max Verstappen plays chess in an Oracle commercial. Oracle joins the long list of companies that use chess for branding, and Verstappen joins the list of sports celebrities to get associated with chess.

It is not April 1st, but it is certainly a fun day over at TCEC. While waiting for Swiss 7 (advance: the strongest Swiss event the chess world has seen) that is scheduled to start next week, TCEC display a “Viewer Submitted Opening Bonus”. In that mini event all openings are submitted by users and top engines are creating pure art on the board.

Today, this was the starting position for Stockfish (3667 elo) vs Berserk (3565 elo), submitted by CrazyIgelFan. You can see the game live here and replay it later in the archives.

Veselin Topalov was a guest at the online studio of Kod Sport in his home country, Bulgaria. In a video titled “I was among 3000 prisoners in Medelin” he talked on multiple topics, including the current state of chess, his manager Danailov, the role of computer chess, his loss from Anand in Sofia, the state of Bulgarian chess, his games in the prison in Medelin, and more.

Topalov extensively talked about cheating in chess and the connection to his match with Kramnik in Elista.

Topalov on cheating in chess