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Steinitz Memorial
The Steinitz Memorial was a blitz chess tournament held from May 15 to May 17, 2020, in honor of the first recognized world chess champion Wilhelm Steinitz. The prize pool was €30,000. Grandmasters participated in the tournament, among men Magnus Carlsen, Alexander Grischuk, Bu Xiangzhi, Peter Svidler, Jeffery Xiong, Daniil Dubov, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Lê Quang Liêm, Anton Korobov, David Antón Guijarro; among women are Ekaterina Lagno, Lei Tingjie, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Tan Zhongyi, Antoaneta Stefanova, Marie Sebag, Zhansaya Abdumalik, Elisabeth Pähtz, Deysi Cori. The tournament was held on the technical site of Chess24.com chess24.com is an Internet chess server in English and nine other languages, established in 2014 by German grandmaster Jan Gustafsson and Enrique Guzman. Among people collaborating with chess24 are World Champions, Grandmasters and International .... The winner among men was then-world chess champion Magnus Carlsen, among women — Ekaterina Lagno. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blitz Chess
Fast chess, also known as Speed chess, is a type of chess in which each player is given less time to consider their moves than normal tournament time controls allow. Fast chess is subdivided, by decreasing time controls, into rapid chess, blitz chess, and bullet chess. Armageddon chess is a particular variation of fast chess in which different rules apply for each of the two players. The top ranked 2021 world rapid chess player is Magnus Carlsen from Norway, who is also the top ranked classical chess player. The top ranked blitz chess player at the beginning of 2022 is Hikaru Nakamura. The top ranked 2021 women's rapid and blitz chess player is Hou Yifan from China, who is also the top ranked women's classical chess player. FIDE rules The World Chess Federation (FIDE) divides time controls for chess into "classical" time controls, and the fast chess time controls. , for master-level players (with an Elo of 2200 or higher) the regulations state that at least 120 minutes per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekaterina Lagno
Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Lagno (russian: Екатерина Александровна Лагно, ; born 27 December 1989) is a Russian (formerly Ukrainian) chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, she earned the title Woman Grandmaster (WGM) at the age of 12 years, four months and two days. In 2007, she was awarded the grandmaster title. She is a twice European Women's Champion and won two team gold medals at the Women's Chess Olympiad, in 2006 and 2014, playing for Ukraine and Russia respectively. She also won team gold at the Women's World Team Championship in 2013 playing for the Ukrainian team and in 2017,2021 playing for Russian team. Lagno won the Women's European Team Championship in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, playing for the Ukrainian team in 2013 and for the Russian team in all following championships. Lagno was the Women's Vice World Champion in 2018, Women's World Rapid Champion in 2014 and Women's World Blitz Champion in 2010, 2018 and 2019. Chess career 1999–2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess Memorial Tournaments
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games, such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, in seventh-century India. The rules of chess as we know them today emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with standardization and universal acceptance by the end of the 19th century. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide. Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no use of dice or cards. It is played on a chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. At the start, each player controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess24
chess24.com is an Internet chess server in English and nine other languages, established in 2014 by German grandmaster Jan Gustafsson and Enrique Guzman. Among people collaborating with chess24 are World Champions, Grandmasters and International Masters including Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Peter Svidler, Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Francisco Vallejo Pons, David Antón Guijarro, Laurent Fressinet, Dorsa Derakhshani, Lawrence Trent, Sopiko Guramishvili, and Hou Yifan. In March 2019, chess24 merged with Magnus Carlsen's company Play Magnus AS in a transaction that made the former chess24 owners the largest shareholders in Play Magnus. Features A 2020 review by IM Luis Torres put chess24 as one of the three most popular internet chess servers, alongside chess.com and lichess. Similarly to other chess servers, chess24 offers the ability to play online against other users or bots, enter online tournaments hosted on the site and view your own statistics. Torres ranked chess.com th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deysi Cori
Deysi Estela Cori Tello (born 2 July 1993) is a Peruvian chess player, who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM), and a three-time American Continental women's champion. At junior level, she was twice world champion and six-time Pan American champion in her age girls category. Cori is the top ranked female player of Peru and has played for the national team of her country in the Women's Chess Olympiad since 2004. She competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2013 and 2015, and in the Women's World Chess Championship in 2010, 2012, 2015 and 2017. Career Deysi Cori won the gold medal at the Pan American Youth Chess Festival in various categories: girls under 10 (2003), girls under 12 (2004), girls under 14 (2007), girls under 16 (2008) and girls under 18 (2011). Also in 2008, Cori won the Pan American Girls U-20 Championship and the World School Chess Championships in the girls under 15 division. In 2004, at the age of eleven, Cori made her debut on the national women's team at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Pähtz
Elisabeth Pähtz (born January 8, 1985, sometimes spelt Elisabeth Paehtz) is a German chess Grandmaster.4th FIDE Council Meeting: List of decisions FIDE, 6 December 2022Paehtz, Elisabeth FIDE, accessed 6 December 2022 She has been among the strongest German female chess players since her youth. In 2002, Pähtz became the World Youth Champion of the girls' under-18 age group, and in 2005, the World Junior Girls Champion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhansaya Abdumalik
Zhansaya Abdumalik ( kk, Jansaya Daniyarqyzy Äbdimalik; russian: Жансая́ Дания́ровна Абдумали́к; born 12 January 2000) is a Kazakhstani chess player who holds the title of Grandmaster (GM). She is the first Kazakhstani woman, and the 39th woman overall, to earn the GM title. Abdumalik has a peak FIDE rating of 2505 and has been ranked as high as No. 11 in the world among women. Abdumalik has been a two-time girls' World Youth Champion as well as a girls' World Junior Champion. She is also a two-time Kazakhstani women's national champion, and has represented Kazakhstan in women's events at the Chess Olympiad, World Team Chess Championship, and the Asian Nations Chess Cup. On April 20, 2022, Zhansaya became the President of the Almaty Chess Federation. Abdumalik began playing chess at age five. She emerged as a chess prodigy, first qualifying for the girls' World Youth Championships at age seven and winning gold medals at the under-8 level at age ei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Sebag
Marie Rachel Sebag (born 15 October 1986) is a French chess grandmaster. She is a two-time French Women's Chess Champion. Tournament results In 1998 Sebag won the European Youth Chess Championship (girls under-12), a feat she repeated the next year (girls U14) and in 2002 (girls U16). In 2004, she shared first place in the World Youth Chess Championship in the category girls U18 with Jolanta Zawadzka, who defeated her in the tie-break. In 2006, she reached the quarter-finals during the Women's World Chess Championship, in which she lost to Svetlana Matveeva. Titles Sebag was already an IM and a WGM when she scored her second GM norm during the Hogeschool Zeeland tournament in Vlissingen in August 2007, where she won a game against former FIDE World Champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov. By securing a third norm during the European Individual Chess Championship The European Individual Chess Championship is a chess tournament organised by the European Chess Union. It was established ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoaneta Stefanova
Antoaneta Stefanova ( bg, Антоанета Стефанова; born 19 April 1979) is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster and Women's World Champion from 2004 to 2006. She has represented Bulgaria in the Chess Olympiad in 2000 and the Women's Chess Olympiad since 1992. Early life and career Stefanova was born in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. When she was four years old, she received chess lessons from her father, Andon Stefanov, a designing artist. In 1989, Stefanova won the Girls U10 section at the World Youth Chess Festival in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. In 1992, she played, at the age of 13, in her first Chess Olympiad in Manila, Philippines. In the same year she became European under-14 girls' champion at the European Youth Chess Championship in Rimavská Sobota. Stefanova won the Bulgarian women's championship in 1995. She tied for fourth place in the 4th Hawaii International Chess Tournament in 1997 scoring 7 points out of 10 games. Thanks to this result Stefanova achieved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tan Zhongyi
Tan Zhongyi (; born 29 May 1991) is a Chinese chess player who holds the title of grandmaster (GM). She is a former Women's World Champion, winning the 2017 knockout edition of the world championship in Iran where she defeated Anna Muzychuk in the final. Tan is the reigning Women's World Rapid Champion. She is the three-time reigning Chinese women's national champion, and is a four-time national champion overall with titles in 2015, 2020, 2021, and 2022. Career Tan was born in Chongqing. She won the World Youth U10 Girls Chess Championship twice, in 2000 and 2001, both held in Oropesa del Mar. In 2002, she won the World Youth U12 Girls Chess Championship in Heraklion. In August–September 2008 at the Women's World Chess Championship she was knocked out in the second round by Pia Cramling by ½-1½. In 2011, she won the women's chess tournament at the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, contributing to China's team gold medal. Tan won the Women's World University Chess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Kosteniuk
Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk (russian: Алекса́ндра Константи́новна Костеню́к; born 23 April 1984) is a Russian chess grandmaster who is the former Women's World Rapid Chess Champion in 2021, and the former Women's World Chess Champion from 2008 to 2010. She was European women's champion in 2004 and a two-time Russian Women's Chess Champion (in 2005 and 2016). Kosteniuk won the team gold medal playing for Russia at the Women's Chess Olympiads of 2010, 2012 and 2014; the Women's World Team Chess Championship of 2017; and the Women's European Team Chess Championships of 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015 and 2017; and the Women's Chess World Cup 2021. Chess career Kosteniuk learned to play chess at the age of five after being taught by her father. She graduated in 2003 from the Russian State Academy of Physical Education in Moscow as a certified professional chess trainer. 1994 Alexandra won the girls under 10 division of the European Youth Chess C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lei Tingjie
Lei Tingjie (born 13 March 1997) is a Chinese chess player who holds the title of Grandmaster (GM). She was the 2021 Women's Grand Swiss champion, the 2017 Chinese women's national champion and the 2022-23 Women's Candidates winner. Lei earned the Grandmaster title in 2017 at age 19, and was just the sixth woman in history to obtain the title as a teenager. Career In 2014, Lei won the 4th China Women Masters Tournament in Wuxi on tie-break from Ju Wenjun and was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) by FIDE. In 2015, she won the women's open event of the Moscow Open, ahead of World Junior Girls Champion Aleksandra Goryachkina. Lei competed in the Women's World Chess Championship 2015, where she was knocked out in the second round by top seed Humpy Koneru. In December 2015, Lei tied for 1st–5th with Alexander Zubarev, Olexandr Bortnyk, Jure Skoberne and Maximilian Neef in the 32nd Böblingen International Open scoring 7/9 points. In 2016, she played on the gold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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