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11-Year-Old Prodigy Aaron Mendes of Canada, Claims Victory in III Open International Chess Menorca BLITZ In an astonishing turn of events at the III Open International Chess Menorca BLITZ held on April 4th in Menorca, Spain, 11-year-old […]
The Chess Federation of Canada disagrees with and is disappointed by the FIDE decision to ban transgender women from competing in women’s chess events. We disagree with the way it was implemented, involving the banning of transgender […]
Carina D’Souza gave a TEDx talk at Havergal College on “Checkmating Bias: Increasing Women’s Particiation in Chess”. Watch the talk on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-WQQm69-jU
(Original was posted on chess.com) It has been a spectacular year for Montreal’s Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux. He steamrolled his competition in an international tournament with a 3037 performance rating, then in September he won the World […]
The ratings incentives have been extended (again) to July 1, 2022. The updated policy is as follows: Extension - Internet Rated Games and COVID-19 Rating Incentive The CFC is extending to July 1, 2022 the interim policy to accept internet […]
(Original was posted HERE) KEC 2022 Announcement (Kingston Easter Chess) This is the KEC 2022 ANNOUNCEMENT, now updated as of Tuesday, April 12th. Especially given changing pandemic conditions, this will be updated as applicable. KEC 2022 […]
GM Wesley So has taken the lead in his match against GM Levon Aronian in The American Cup 2026 Grand Final. It was an Italian Opening gone wrong for the Armenian-American, and So won a remarkably smooth game. Aronian must win the […]
The University Of Texas At Dallas (UTD) was the top team in the Fall 2025 regular season of the Collegiate Chess League (CCL). However, in the playoffs, they fell just short, losing to St. Louis University (SLU) in the finals, 8.5-7.5. In […]
Eleven-year-old WIM Bodhana Sivanandan has added another milestone to her rapidly growing chess career, surpassing the 2300 rating barrier for the first time to secure the FM title. The British prodigy is now rated higher at the same age […]
GM Sina Movahed, the 15-year-old Iranian grandmaster coming off of victory in the Under-16 ChessKid Youth Championship, became the first player to score 10.5 points in a Titled Tuesday in 2026 on March 10, going to wire-to-wire to win the […]
GM Sina Movahed defeated GM Yagiz Erdogmus, in the 2026 ChessKid Youth Championship U16 finals. The two teenage GMs tied for first place in the A Group in the preliminary round robin tournament, before defeating the top finishers in the B […]
GM Levon Aronian lost the first rapid game of The American Cup 2026 Elimination Final, but came back in the second game to even the score against GM Fabiano Caruana. He then won the match in blitz tiebreaks and will face GM Wesley So in […]
A very rapid, positional attack
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