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<r> The FIDE Women's World Chess Championship takes starts in Shanghai and finishes in Chongqing, China 3rd to 20th April 2025. Defending champion Ju Wenjun is challenged by Tan Zhongyi.<br/> <br/> Source: <URL url="https://theweekinchess.com/chessnews/events/fide-womens-world-chess-championship-202...

<r> The Freestyle Grand Slam Paris takes place Mon 7th Apr to Mon 14th Apr 2025. Chess960 in Paris. Players: Carlsen, Nakamura, Gukesh, Erigaisi, Caruana, Abdusattorov, Praggnanandhaa, Nepomniachtchi, Rapport, Vachier-Lagrave, Vidit and Keymer play. Niemann withdrew at the last minute and was replac...

<r> Fridrik Olafsson 26 January 1935 to 6 April 2025 was the first Icelandic GM and Candidate after finishing tied 5th–6th in the 1958 Interzonal. He was an amateur player at the time and went on to finish 7th of 8th in the 1959 Candidates in Bled, Zagreb, and Belgrade. Olafsson continued to be an a...

<r>The 2025 Paris Freestyle Chess Grand Slam started with a bang on Monday. The first day featured six rounds of rapid chess and only six of the 36 games ended in draws! World number-one Magnus Carlsen and late addition GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov emerg...<br/> <br/> Source: <URL url="https://www.chess...

<r> The 25th European Women's Championship takes place in Rhodes, Greece, Mon 31st Mar to Sat 12th Apr 2025. Leading players: Nino Batsiashvili, Teodora Injac, Meri Arabidze, Stavroula Tsolakidou etc.<br/> <br/> Source: <URL url="https://theweekinchess.com/chessnews/events/25th-european-womens-champ...

<r>16-year-old Turkish GM Ediz Gurel added a third Bullet Brawl title to his trophy cabinet on Saturday after a tense battle with his compatriot, 13-year-old GM Yagiz Erdogmus, and the nine-time Bullet Brawl winner, GM Andrew Tang. Two hours o...<br/> <br/> Source: <URL url="https://www.chess.com/ne...

<r>GM Ju Wenjun ground out a win in a pawn-up endgame to defeat GM Tan Zhongyi and level the scores at 1.5-1.5 after three games of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Championship. Tan played fast in a Sicilian to pressure her opponent, but in the run-...<br/> <br/> Source: <URL url="https://www.chess.com/...

<r>Fridrik Olafsson, Iceland’s first grandmaster, two-time Nordic Champion, six-time Icelandic champion, the oldest living candidate for the world chess championship, and former FIDE President, passed away on Friday April 4 aged 90 after enduri...<br/> <br/> Source: <URL url="https://www.chess.com/n...

<r>GM Ju Wenjun survived heavy pressure on the board and on the clock to make a five-hour, 80-move draw against GM Tan Zhongyi that leaves the scores level at 2-2 after game four of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Championship. Both players competed to s...<br/> <br/> Source: <URL url="https://www.chess...