7 recaps
Two title races, one individual and one team, ran side by side this week: the U.S. Championship and the European Club Cup in Budva both finished with late drama. Around them came a record-setting IM…
Eighteen stories this week, and the biggest share came from Saint Louis, where the U.S. Championships went from a two-man lead to a four-way tie and back to a single leader. Around that, a Chinese…
The Samarkand Olympiad kept echoing through our 21 stories this week, from short games to German medals. Alongside it came a Swiss in Norway, a US Championship preview, regional tournament roundups…
Samarkand dominated the week. The Olympiad ended, FIDE elected a new president at the same General Assembly, and the stories around those two events fill most of this recap. Online events, rating…
No single week this year has been shaped by one tournament quite like this one. The 46th Chess Olympiad in Samarkand produced five separate storylines on its own, from a home team's near-perfect run…
Samarkand carried most of this week's weight, hosting both the Disability Olympiad and the record-breaking 46th Chess Olympiad back to back. Around that, FIDE lined up a new commercial partner for…
Global Chess League Season 4 supplied most of the week's drama, with the standings changing hands almost every night in Bengaluru. Around it, FIDE kept adding to its institutional calendar and the…