Women's World Chess Champion Ju Wenjun (2576 🇨🇳) leads the FIDE Women's Grand Prix, half a point ahead of Humpy Koneru (2560 🇮🇳).

Ju Wenjun keeps leading FIDE WGP Leg in Skolkovo with three rounds to go. Humpy Koneru is half a point behind.

Pia Cramling has lost her three last games in a row. As the great champion she is, this must have hurt! But today it is obvious she was ready for the battle again. 💪

Ju Wenjun and Koneru Humpy break away from the pursuers. In round 8 of #WomenGrandPrixFIDE in Skolkovo, both of them won again.

Ju (6,5 points) and Koneru (6) will face each other in the last round, and there two more rounds to go before that. https://wgp2019.fide.com

In 1977, Garry Kasparov dispatched his opponent Guy West in just 12 moves.

Tickets for the FIDE World Fischer Championship Semis/Finals are now available!

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A lot of supertournaments. This is good and ... bad! It’s clear why it’s good. And it's bad because tournaments are becoming too much alike. But the tournament of grandmasters in Moscow (1967) is remembered by all connoisseurs of chess history. Stein, Spassky, Tal, Portisch ...

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