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Arturs Neiksans (Latvian: Arturs Neikšāns, born 16 March 1983) is a Latvian chess player who has held the FIDE title of Grandmaster since 2012. He is a four-time Latvian champion, one of the leading Latvian chess players, an FIDE-accredited chess trainer, [2] author and a commentator of high-level chess tournaments.
Abdumalik and her parents opened the Zhansaya Abdumalik Chess Academy in 2014. The academy has grown to have three branches with over 700 students in total. [109] Former World Champion Anatoly Karpov attended the opening of the academy, where he and Abdumalik played a four-game speed chess match. While Karpov won both rapid games, Abdumalik won ...
He started the world's first interactive chess school in 1996, the Internet Chess Academy. [2] Schwartzman has a bachelor's degree with highest honors in finance from the University of Florida and an MBA as Palmer Scholar from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Schwartzman retired from chess in 2000 to focus on a career in ...
This is a list of chess organizations. Chess is played all over the world. The dominant international governing body of chess is FIDE, which confers titles and conducts world championship tournaments. [1] The first Official World Championship was held in 1886, and there has always been at least one world champion since then. [2]
Its numbers are so big that Chess.com has been organizing its own million-dollar tournaments, slowly encroaching on the game’s governing body, the International Chess Federation or FIDE.
2009 June – 3rd place in 4th international chess competition named after Dvorkovich. 2009 August – 3rd place in U16 World Youth Chess Olympiad. [4] 2009 September – 8th place in U16 European Youth Chess Championship. 2010 February – 2nd place in G. Kasparian memorial – Young Masters (Chess Academy tournament).
The FIDE World Chess Championship carries a $2.5m (£1.96m) prize fund. The Indian siblings taking the chess world by storm. India chess prodigy's 'remarkable' impact on the sport.
His pupil Aren Emrikian became Under-8 World Chess Champion in 2017 and his another student Arthur Xu became silver medalist in the 2017 under-10 World Championship. [2] [3] In 2018, the article Amanov authored on uschess.org named "Path to the Podium: GM Mesgen Amanov on Training" was chosen the article of the year by uschess.org. [3] In ...