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Uzbekistan are Olympiad champions again! They finished two match points clear of Germany and India. After the celebrations, ChessBase India caught up with the Uzbek team to talk about the games, the pressure, and what this win means to them. Do not miss what the newly crowned champions had to say! | Photo: Nils Rohde /
Over the past four years, Australian chess streamer Hanna Sayce has attracted considerable attention with her chess streams on Twitch, though not all of it was welcome. A stalker followed her activities, harassed her online and, after falsely accusing her of drug smuggling, caused her to be imprisoned twice.
Timur Turlov is an entrepreneur, president of the Kazakhstan Chess Federation and a candidate for the FIDE presidency. But how did he get into chess? In a conversation with Johannes Fischer at the Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, Turlov talks about how his grandfather taught him the game, how his six children rekindled his
The European Continental Stage of the FIDE ISCF World Schools Team Championship has begun in Tsaghkadzor, Armenia, with 27 school teams from 25 countries competing for places in the December Grand Final. After two rounds, five teams remain on maximum match points, with Gymnasium No. 50 of Minsk leading on game points.
The eleven-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan played on top board for England at the Women's Olympiad, was the best player on her team and one of the best performers on board one. With this result, she earned her third WGM norm and is now the youngest Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in history. | Photo: Rafal Oleksiewicz/FIDE
Anyone playing for medals at a Chess Olympiad takes chess seriously. In Samarkand, Vincent Keymer won bronze with the German team, Germany’s first team medal since silver in Istanbul in 2000. But after the final round, Keymer took time for a short interview with Arne Kähler and handled his not entirely serious question
The XTX Markets London Chess Classic (LCC) returns to the capital between 24th November and 6th December 2026. The event will begin with an opening ceremony and drawing of lots at the iconic Tower of London, with the majority of games taking place alongside the LCC Festival at London Novotel West in Hammersmith.
In the final round of the Women's Chess Olympiad, China, led by top board Zhu Jiner, defeated Vietnam 3–1 to secure first place outright with 20 match points. Their rivals did not fare as well. Kazakhstan drew with Poland, while India drew with Georgia. As a result, Kazakhstan's 18 points were enough for second place,
The inaugural FIDE Excellence Awards were presented in Samarkand during the 46th Chess Olympiad, recognising achievements across the chess world during the 2024–2026 cycle. Honours went to players, teams, tournaments, federations, creators and social initiatives, with recipients including Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus, Levon Aro
In his essay Christian Hesse - professor of mathematics and, no less importantly, a passionate lover of chess - brings together mathematical and chess problems that are complete and self-contained, problems that explain themselves and need no lengthy verbal instructions. Helmut Pfleger, grandmaster and medical research
We have seen a lot of great performances at the Olympiad in Samarkand – many great players have lived up to their high standards. But it is especially pleasing to see chess prodigies you have known and looked after since their early teens deliver the goods. Like this batch, who have been surging. One has scored in abso
Uzbekistan secured their second Chess Olympiad gold by beating Ukraine 2½–1½ in the final round in Samarkand. India took silver after drawing Hungary, while Germany claimed bronze and their first team medal since 2000 after beating the Netherlands. Nodirbek Abdusattorov won individual gold on board one, Frederik Svane
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