The Kazakhstan Chess Federation, in close collaboration with FIDE, is leaving no stone unturned in their desire to provide a clean and...
The amount of decisive results in this tournament is staggering. Not a round has gone by without at least two decisive games,...
Grand Prix events are long and tiring. Eleven games plus travel essentially means two full weeks abroad, in addition to time allocated...
The sixth round of the Astana Women’s Grand Prix proved to be one of the most exciting, with four decisive games and...
The FIDE Women’s Grand Prix began in 2009-2011 as a series of six chess tournaments exclusively for women, forming part of the...
The fourth round of the Astana Grand Prix was no less exciting than any of the previous rounds, even though only two...
Time trouble is a serious problem for chess players. Understanding how to balance thinking enough to avoid mistakes during the game, with...
It was the bloody day yesterday at the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix Astana 2022 with four decisive results in the second round...
“Today was a bloody round” were GM Ilya Smirin’s first words to me when we left the venue this evening. None less...