FIDE Candidates Tournament 2026 | Round 1 LIVE | Nakamura, Deshmukh, Sindarov & more YouTube video by FIDE chess

the wait is almost over, and in a couple of hours the candidates will finally take off. i'll try to post some thoughts about the rounds after end of play, but for now - very happy to be here, with jan, to talk about my favorite event as it unfolds.

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Opening Ceremony | FIDE Candidates 2026 YouTube video by FIDE chess

Candidates opening ceremony last night was a huge shitshow. Adele Nazeem-style name mispronunciations, endless speeches by random Cypriot dignitaries, off-topic questions, awkward standing around. again, this is all what makes high-level chess so funny
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Photo of Divya Deshmukh seated, smiling and filling out chalkboard with answers about herself for women's candidates tournament 2026. photos from FIDE for open tournament released earlier

found this on FIDE. still to come it seems

So far I do not see these pictures for women's candidates tournament. Am I missing it? Or is FIDE being FIDE

Hikaru Nakamura, holding blackboard on white backdrop. he has written answers with chalk Candidates appearance #: 4 I am from... USA I like... Oceans and mountains I dislike... spiders / caves This year I will be... A great father! player signature #FideCandidates

Hikaru Nakamura

Andrey Esipenko, holding blackboard on white backdrop. he has written answers with chalk Candidates appearance #: 1 I am from... Russia I like... Winning I dislike... Tottenham This year I will be... better person player signature #FideCandidates

Andrey Esipenko

Wei Yi, holding blackboard on white backdrop. he has written answers with chalk Candidates appearance #: 1 I am from... China I like... winning I dislike... losing This year I will be... a better player player signature #FideCandidates

Wei Yi

Javokhir Sindarov, holding blackboard on white backdrop. he has written answers with chalk Candidates appearance #: 1 I am from... Uzbekistan I like... play video games I dislike... math This year I will be... Top-5 in chess player signature #FideCandidates

Javokhir Sindarov

Anish Giri, holding blackboard on white backdrop. he has written answers with chalk Candidates appearance #: 3 I am from... The Netherlands I like... to win I dislike... to lose This year I will be... a good boy player signature #FideCandidates

Anish Giri

Matthias Blübaum, holding blackboard on white backdrop. he has written answers with chalk Candidates appearance #: 1 I am from... Germany I like... Chess / Pizza I dislike... Chess / [??????] This year I will be... trying to play good chess player signature #FideCandidates

Matthias Blübaum

R Praggnanandhaa, holding blackboard on white backdrop. he has written answers with chalk Candidates appearance #: 2 I am from... India I like... Chess I dislike... Chess This year I will be... 21 player signature #FideCandidates

R Praggnanandhaa

Fabiano Caruana, holding blackboard on white backdrop. he has written answers with chalk Candidates appearance #: 6 I am from... USA I like... Ocean I dislike... Mosquitos This year I will be... World Champion player signature #FideCandidates

Fabiano Caruana

choose your fighter, candidates 2026 edition

Happy 11th birthday to Bodhana Sivanandan who has already defeated grandmasters, broken records, and earned the FM title! 🥳🎉

jan was a wonderful person - funny, engaging, and deeply in love with chess (and, of course, very good at it - i think i have a minus score against him, and he was in his 40s when we first met). i can still picture him at dinner, a bottle of red inevitably close at hand, with that impish smile..

A group of people who are not actually friends but rather cling together to create a small hierarchical community, each one motivated by the hope of one day dominating the others.

Books that helped Andy Woodward convert winning positions Converting a winning position is one of the toughest skills in chess. Many players build an advantage only to see it slip away at the final stage. This article looks at how Andy Woodward mastered this...

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Steinitz Against The French Defence. Part One. Good afternoon everyone. WARNING! This is one of my stupidly large blogs - lots in the game notes - so just pop in and out when you have time. Cheers! O.K. I have been back to what I really do - most ...

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nord vpn notification text: K-chess.com On January 30, 2026, a database related to the K-chess.com website was found circulating the web. The potential data leak reportedly occurred in 2024. Over 83 thousand email addresses were exposed, together with personal, location, social media and credential data. Leaked records include username, date of birth, first name, last name, country, time zone and Facebook. The validity of the data exposed couldn’t be verified. Yet we’re still informing you about a potential data leak – but keep in mind there’s a chance of it being a false positive.

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The Joy of Creating Chess Tools with Claude AI YouTube video by Han Schut

I haven't written a line of code in 40 years. In less than 2 days, I built two advanced chess software tools entirely through conversation with Claude AI.
In this video, I share the joy of "conversational coding" and demonstrate the two powerful tools we built from scratch.
youtu.be/GSj69yLmwMg

Any chess position with 8 pieces on the board and at least one pair of opposed pawns has been solved! Lichess can now tell you definitively if it's a win, loss or draw with no engine required. Read about the massive technological undertaking to accomplish this partial 8 piece tablebase on our blog:

Netflix Releases 'Queen of Chess', Bringing Judit Polgar's Story To 300 Million For Streaming GM Judit Polgar's extraordinary career is in the global spotlight as Netflix released its new documentary, Queen of Chess, on Friday, February 6.

The documentary on the rise of Judit Polgar, the greatest female chess player of all time, is out now on Netflix!

IM 7vault - Chess Profile Discover the online chess profile of IM 7vault at Chess.com. See their chess rating, follow their best games, and challenge them to play a game.

IM Hongsen Chen (7vault)
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Did you know that you gain more and lose less rating points for results with the black pieces on Lichess? 💡

To account for White's first-move advantage, a standard game between, for example, a 1500-rated player with White and a 1511-rated player with Black is treated as a balanced game.

big LinkedIn energy

Screen grab of some sad thing you can buy tickets to and probably photograph yourself at to let your followers know how badly things are going in your life

Magnus Carlsen is doing the business influencer circuit. The kind of thing they sell to people who aren't going to make it. The kind of thing they host in Dubai and advertise on YouTube. The kind of thing where chess is used as a metaphor by people who do not know how to play chess

In Loving Memory of Daniel Naroditsky YouTube video by Dina Belenkaya

I wasn't really ready to watch this when it was posted, but GM Daniel Naroditsky's friends at the Charlotte Chess Center shared this fine lecture after his passing, on the myths (mostly) about the Russian chess school.

Smart and entertaining. Will miss him.

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FIDE World Cup Finals: Sindarov Wins All, Esipenko Qualifies to Candidates GM Javokhir Sindarov won the 2025 FIDE World Cup, defeating GM Wei Yi in the rapid tiebreaks. Meanwhile, GM Andrey Esipenko has qualified to the 2026 FIDE Candidates after defeating GM Nodirbek…

GM Javokhir Sindarov won the FIDE World Cup 2025, defeating GM Wei Yi in the rapid tiebreaks!

➡️ Read our final recap, with annotations by IM Nitish Belurkar for 20 of the most important World Cup games: lichess.org/@/Lichess/bl...

Average chessable opening course... lol
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