Tata Steel Chess: Firouzja Joins So In Lead

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Today the legendary Georgian grandmaster Maia Chiburdanidze celebrates her 59th birthday. Our best wishes!

Chiburdanidze won the women's world championship title at the age of 17 by beating Nona Gaprindashvili in 1978 and held it for 13 years until 1991.

Women's no. 1 Hou Yifan is now in Vladivostok to commentate on the Women's World Championship match alongside Nigel Short!

After the World Chess Champ (blitz) event ended, Firouzja was busy playing blitz with Hikaru Nakamura. Many people have gathered just to enjoy this friendly game. Some of them forgot about the speaker ... at the end of the event (awards session, medals, etc.) because they were focused on the board.

Goryachkina takes the lead for the 1st time in the Women's World Championship match with just 4 games to go!

21-year-old Aleksandra Goryachkina takes the lead in the world championship match after a forceful win over Ju Wenjun in game eight, with four games to go.

Goryachkina, Aleksandra - Ju, Wenjun

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FIDE Women’s World Championship Match 2020 round 08

♟ | Masters: Round 6 starts at 13.30 CET. #TataSteelChess

Live stream: http://tatasteelchess.com

A 5th draw in a row in #TataSteelChess for Magnus

It's Friday and it's a Carlsen versus Caruana day.

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