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Round 9WR Chess vs. Chess Pensioners 3,5:2,522.Rxg6! and out – the game of the ninth round. Peter Svidler was late for his... Read More

The "WR Chess" team, sponsored by Düsseldorf company "WR Logistics", has won the first World Rapid Team... Read More

Four matches, four wins. Team "WR Chess" continued its run at the FIDE Rapid Team World Championship in Dusseldorf. Read More

If the best-dressed team were to be chosen in Düsseldorf, the Rapid Team World Championship would have been decided before... Read More

From 26th to 28th of August 2023, Düsseldorf will host a unique competition — the first World Team Rapid Chess Championship... Read More

Does the name Rainer Becker mean anything to Fabiano Caruana? Has Levon Aronian ever heard of Manfred Schneider? If not,... Read More

Three gold medals of the European Under-12 Championships in classical chess, four medals of the Polish and European Junior... Read More

Levon Aronian is not yet ready to call himself World Bughouse Champion. Although he won what is believed to be the highest-profile... Read More

Levon Aronian has won the WR Chess Masters. After Aronian, Gukesh and Ian Nepomniachtchi were tied with 5.5/9 each at the... Read More

Showdown with Joker: After eight rounds of the WR Chess Masters, the field is set for an exciting final round, in which... Read More

Gukesh has caught up with Levon Aronian. After a Black win over Andrey Esipenko in the seventh round of the WR Chess Masters,... Read More

First against second: It could have been the game that makes the outcome of the tournament completely uncertain again. Wesley... Read More

Levon Aronian's fifth-round win doesn't mean a preliminary decision in the WR Chess Masters, but the 40-year-old... Read More

To play at the top of the world in chess, you have to be fit – physically. Therefore, it doesn't take a table tennis... Read More

Almost half-time at the WR Chess Masters. After an eventful first few days, host and organizer Wadim Rosenstein joined Yasser... Read More

71 boys and 54 girls, born 2009 and younger, from 74 countries and 4 continents (Asia, Africa, America, Europe) have participated... Read More

It smelled like a draw shortly after move 30, when a symmetrical rook ending had developed between Nodirbek Abdusattorov... Read More

Will Yaroslav Bilenko of the German club Schachfeunde Gerresheim ever play a game against his chess idol Ian Nepomniachtchi?... Read More

With a strategic masterpiece Levon Aronian has taken the lead in the WR Chess Masters. Aronian gave Nodirbek Abdusattorov's... Read More

Gukesh and Nodirbek Abdusattorov have joined the leaders with wins in the second round of the WR Chess Masters. Together... Read More

WR Chess Masters 2023, Round 1 | Photo: Lennart OotesThree wins, two draws, one of them fought out over... Read More

Mayor Stephan Keller looks as if he has tricked host Wadim Rosenstein. Vincent Keymer, Keller's partner... Read More

Before the super grandmasters take to the boards at the Hyatt Regency on Thursday, Düsseldorf's first citizen will try... Read More

There could hardly have been a better year for her election as President of the African Chess Confederation (ACC) than the... Read More

For him, 2023 will be a year of classical chess, said Anish Giri after his triumph in the super tournament "Tata Steel... Read More

"Congratulations on a great tournament!" When Vincent Keymer finished second in the Rapid World Championship at... Read More

Elisabeth Pähtz, the German number one for almost 20 years, will add to the WR Chess Masters program in many ways. As host... Read More

The "WR Chess Masters" in Düsseldorf is the first privately organized super tournament on German soil after almost... Read More