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FIDE Women’s Grand Prix Shymkent Round 2: Munguntuul Plays an Amazing Sacrifice

man lifting weights on a chess boardFM CheckRaiseMate

The Minimalist Chess Workout

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October Top 25 Women's Rankings: Divya to No. 6, & Hello Kashlinskaya!

Knight_Jockey

Officially An UltraBullet Expert!

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Behold the Wonders of ClueChess

List of underrated/overrated countries in EloVlad_G92

FIDE rating changes: Are they working so far?

GM GMSzabo

Lessons from the Ring

WFM fla2021

Sometimes, it's better not to castle too quickly! Here's why!

GM peradetlic83

Analyzing Your Approach: Overcoming Poor Decisions in Chess

The second of six FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2024-25 tournaments starts at 10:00 UTC in Shymkent, Kazakhstan! Follow all the games in our broadcast until 8 November, as GMs Tan Zhongyi, Aleksandra Goryachkina, Koneru Humpy and others try to earn points for the WGP Series.

Congrats FM @Ragehunter, the clear winner of our 2024 Autumn Marathon, with a 61% win rate in 454 games, 359 points ahead of 2nd placed CM @Statham_13! Thanks to all 20,555 registered users who played a total of 219,733 games. The next Marathon will take place on 28th December.

The Novy Bor Chess Club, with GM Vidit Gujrathi on board 1, won the European Chess Club Cup 2024. Tajfun ŠK Ljubljana, led by GM Nana Dzagnidze, won the Women's section. GM Arjun Erigaisi, who earlier crossed the 2800 mark in the live ratings, couldn't stay above 2800 after two draws in the final games.

Congratulations to IM Toivo Keinänen for winning our Titled Arena October! He overtook eventual runner-up GM Sergei Zhigalko in the end, who was leading for a long time! GM Oleksandr Bortnyk took 3rd place.

Join our 2024 Autumn Marathon, starting at midnight UTC, for 24 hours of 2+1 bullet chess and be part of one of the biggest chess tournaments in history! The winner, top 10, top 50, top 100 and top 500 players will all get a unique trophy.

For the first time in his career, GM Arjun Erigaisi has crossed the 2800 rating mark in the live ratings, after his win over GM Dmitry Andreikin in Round 5 of the European Chess Club Cup! Follow the remaining two rounds of the ECCC Open and Women's sections in our broadcasts.

Congratulations to Полина Янученко1 for winning our Streamers Battle October 2024! Congrats also to runner-up Ronaldo Playing Chess, to IM YOSEPH AND FRIENDS for taking 3rd place, and to Zhigalko_Sergei & Friends for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,986 registered players!