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Indian Qualifiers Chess event will take place from 7th-10th May 2021 through chess24, as a qualification tournament for the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour.

The event gathers 16 participants playing a knockout tournament and the best ranked two players will qualify for a Tour event:

Nigerian news portal Today.ng reported today about children learning chess to seek escape from Nigeria’s slums.

Russian juniors and trainers, members of the Russian National team that won the 1st FIDE Online Olympiad, were awarded in the Educational Centre “Sirius” in Sochi for their contribution to the victory of the Russian national team.

Jon Kristian Haarr is the General Manager of the Offerspill Chess Club in Norway. In a detailed interview for Chessdom.com he discusses the history of the club, the innovative approach of the Offerspill Online League, the recent first edition of the new season, the role and importance of Magnus Carlsen in the club, and more

Official website of Offerspill Chess Club / Offerspill Twitter / Offerspill Facebook

The Mitropa Cup Hybrid 2021 has started and although the games have shown how players haven’t lost their habits playing standard chess, let’s focus for a moment on the venues.

The Women’s Candidates Chess Tournament 2022 qualifying path has been approved by the FIDE Council. The Women’s Candidates will be an eight player double round robin event, copying the format of the open Candidates which just finished.

Women’s Candidates Chess 2022

ITT Fenamac Mexico chess events launch today in Mexico city within 3 groups: A, B and C, as round-robin 10 players tournaments.

The 57th Romanian Correspondence Chess Championship held between May 2019 and March 2021, ended with the victory of the well-known Romanian chess player Partenie Mihai.

Tudor Ristea had the same score but Sonneborn Berger tiebreak decided that Parenie Mihai takes the title of Romanian Correspondence Chess Champion 2021.

European Girls’ and Women’s Chess Weekend will take place on 14-16 May with various contents: tournaments, coaching sessions, simultaneous exhibitions, and panel debates.

The best Dutch Grandmaster and World #6, Anish Giri, lists his chess goals in Twitter! We hope Anish will add more content to his list! :)

#goals pic.twitter.com/G9bW2IdQ2F

— Anish Giri (@anishgiri) May 4, 2021