Sabina is from Romania. Elshan is from Iran. They've already traveled the world, competing against the world's top chess players. Now, they're growing their relationship in Durham.

There are three different outcomes for a chess game. We can win, we can draw or we can lose. There are also three different ways how we can lose a game. We get checkmated, we lose on time, or we resign. Resigning is normally an option if we are losing too…

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France) Born: October 21, 1990 (29 years old) Rating: 2767 Replaced Teimour Radjabov as the highest-rated reserve player. It will be his debut in a Candidates Tournament.

With Ding Liren we reach one of the two absolute favourites to win the 2020 Candidates Tournament. The Chinese no. 1 and world no. 3’s recent 100-game unbeaten streak demonstrated how hard he’d become to beat, but the criticism was that he was too solid to…

Replay the Lausanne FIDE Women's Grand Prix Round 11 game played on 13/03/2020 with computer analysis

It was a rather short final day of action at the Women's Grand Prix in Lausanne. All six encounters finished drawn after 33 moves or fewer, which meant the standings table remained unchanged. Nana Dzagnidze and Aleksandra Goryachkina thus shared first place…

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