#FIDEWorldCup 2021 will have 8 rounds, with 156 players in the first one. 78 winners of Round 1 + 50 top seeds will comprise the tree starting from Round 2.

As usual, both finalists will qualify to the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2022.

The first leg of FIDE Women’s Grand Prix 2019-20 was launched today in Russian Skolkovo. The opening ceremony was held at the Matrex Center, the venue for the tournament, which is a very stylish tv-studio-like space.

The website is https://wgp2019.fide.com

Moscow, 5th September 1985. The 2nd game of the second World Championship match between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov is in progress on the stage of the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.

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Anatoly Karpov 🆚 Garry Kasparov

Karpov - Kasparov World Championship Match (1985), Moscow URS, rd 2, Sep-05
Sicilian Defense: Scheveningen. Classical Variation (B84)

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John Hilbert, the renowned American chess historian, remembers Dale Brandreth (1931-2019). https://bit.ly/2kF5kNG

“It is my style to take my opponent and myself on to unknown grounds. A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.”

🔸 David Bronstein

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Осень шахматиста. Михаил Ботвинник (1990)

A 1990 Soviet TV documentary on Botvinnik

Ju Wenjun 🇨🇳, Aleksandra Goryachkina 🇷🇺, and Valentina Gunina 🇷🇺 grabbed the lead in Skolkovo after the first day.

In round 1, they defeated Pia Cramling 🇸🇪, Antoaneta Stefanova 🇧🇬, and Alina Kashlinskaya 🇷🇺 respectively.

https://wgp2019.fide.com
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