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[Hwan Cho] (As the Coronavirus pandemic has negatively impacted many across the globe, chess masters like Grischuk and Tomashevsky are finding a way to help others in the midst of this pandemic)

Alexander Grischuk. Photo: Maria Emelianova/Chess.com. GM Alexander Grischuk won the “Play For Russia” tournament on Thursday after beating GM Evgeny Tomashevsky in the final. Held May 12-14, the online blitz tournament raised an impressive amount of over $333,000 for hospitals and health workers fighting the coronavirus epidemic in Russia. […]

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Precious Bansal, a Chandigarh-based 11-year-old, plays chess. Tribune photo Jupinderjit Singh Chandigarh, April 14 Eleven-year-old Precious Bansal, a promising chess player from the city, had been sharpening her skills for the last few months in preparation for a number of tournaments scheduled from March onward, after her exams got […]

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There’s more news about GM Hikaru Nakamura this week, as the American grandmaster won the May 12 edition of Titled Tuesday with 9.5/10, finishing ahead of the Iranian prodigy Alireza Firouzja and 1,083 other participants. The next Titled Tuesday will be played on May 19 at 10 a.m. Pacific […]

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NEW DIRECTION: FIDE says online chess will be the new order of the day. Beijing : After China claimed the title at FIDE Chess.com Online Nations Cup, FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich has revealed more plans in this unprecedented black swan era. The chess world, including more tournaments and a […]

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[Hwan Cho] This article concerns how technology impacts chess tournaments around the world amidst this pandemic.

It was 8 a.m. Tuesday in St. Louis when the American chess grandmaster Fabiano Caruana, ranked second best in the world, moved his pawn to E4. It was 6:30 p.m., and over 8,000 miles away in Nashik, India, when his opponent, Vidit Gujrathi, responded from his home, just […]

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