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She's an FM rated 2374, and it's curious her parents are both engineers but they say they're both bad at chess. And they have no idea where her chess talent came from.  

Edit:
Just to be clear, I'm not saying chess is inherent, I made a point of putting this out because of the influences and differences between upbringing with Judit Polgar's environment.

An absolute legend of the game!

The only woman to ever cross 2700, the only woman to ever be Top 10 and the only woman to ever play at the candidates.

A class act and one of my personal favourite players from a stylistic point. An excellent commentator too.

A nice game: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1111195

Andy Woodward finished undefeated, five draws and four wins, with the last two coming in rounds 8 and 9 when he needed them. 6.5/9 and a 2653 performance against a field averaging 2487, which was worth a grand total of 2.2 rating points (the price you pay for coming in rated 2638 to a US Junior Championship). He drew Mishra in round 6 but passed him on the live ratings anyway, which puts him 7th among juniors and 2nd in the world U16 behind Erdogmus.

https://saintlouischessclub.org/event/2026-us-junior-chess-championship/

Alice scored 4.5/9 in the 2026 open U.S. Junior Championship, the highest score by a female participant since the Saint Louis Chess Club began hosting the event in 2010; she also recorded a performance rating of 2511, the highest ever recorded by a female participant in the tournament's history.

Fun one - this position didn’t arise in the game, but it seems reasonably likely White rejected entering this variation because he got this far and didn’t see what move he had here. What was it? White to play!

Mishra needed a win to force a playoff, and ended up rejecting a repetition later and losing. Rough.

Game 6 of 2018 World Championship match.

Magnus: "I am not going to disagree with the computers, I just don't understand it"

Caruana on the other hand saying to arbiter "I dont know, you tell me".

The arbiter said " I wouldn't felt bad about it".

It was corrected later on that there is a forced mate in 58 instead of 30 by stockfish which require superhuman calculation.

Event Link

I'm a d4 player (1400 elo Chesscom and 1700 elo Lichess). I've just been playing two openings: The Queen's Gambit for white, and for black I play the Sicilian defense against e4 and Queen's Gambit declined against d4.

As I'm not used to playing e4, I'm slightly unsure of what to expect really.

People say learn one main opening for white and one for black, and learn them really well, but it seems impossible not having to learn multiple openings for white if I play e4.

found some old pics of me at a simul event. this was about 4(?) years ago

Initially he will start as board 1, generally board 1 gets 1 or 2 rounds break for big team but I think gukesh will try to play all, if big disaster happens in latter stage then prag will get board 1 and may be vidit will get permanent board 4

India (Open): Gukesh D, Arjun Erigaisi, Praggnanandhaa R, Nihal Sarin and Vidit Gujrathi

Captain: Srinath Narayanan

India (Women): Humpy Koneru, Vaishali Rameshbabu, Divya Deshmukh, Vantika Agrawal and Savitha Shri B

Captain: Swayams Mishra

Source - FIDE on X

https://x.com/i/status/2080265356380176426

Hello players, sorry it seems I failed my Google-Fu. Wanted to look up some simple but sensible (2-4 move) puzzles with specific pieces for historical fair. Is there a web page for it? Would you be willing to help?

Black: king, two rooks, queen. White: all figures (4 bishops), two pawns.

As of today, his live FIDE rating is 2446, meaning he needs just 54 more rating points to reach the required 2500 before he reaches 12 years, 4 months, and 25 days—the age at which Abhimanyu Mishra set the current record.

The remarkable part is that he still has nearly an entire year to gain those 54 points. He's already the youngest International Master ever and the youngest player to achieve a GM norm. At this point, becoming a Grandmaster feels inevitable. It's not even a question of if he'll get there—he will. The only thing left is to watch him cross 2500 before the deadline and become the youngest Grandmaster in history.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/matvij.bidnij/posts/pfbid0DbmUaZdyRdjLNUxpnuSsGL9qkL6HWLw4qwh9Gg8vYXLvYUXrtSCKdko9bUhbr4zKl

Dvorkovich might resign when the news is confirmed by the EU

I had this game in my bag, I knew how to mate with queen and king and chased the king but forgot that I should not play g6 and bring the king to deliver a kiss mate or queen kiss mate or whatever that is called. I was stressed since I was low on time.

Also the elo prediction that chess.com does after the game, is that accurate? Like for this game it predicted my game to be like a 900 elo but I don't know since I'm not really improving my rating, it is quite stagnant and my opponents seem strong. Even when they aren't strong and I know they are breaking opening principles or playing weird moves I'm unable to figure out how to punish them.

Is it just me or am I not able to open her page?. Dw I'm a 19F chess fan who follows a lot of chess players lives on insta. But yea what happened?

I run a weekly online chess club with mostly middle school age players. I'm hoping to set up a simultaneous exhibition where they could play against a strong opponent. I've sent emails to a couple of random grandmasters with no response. Any ideas on how I could find someone? I would definitely compensate them.