After a long and tense final round, Kateryna Lagno, playing under the FIDE flag, emerged as the winner of the Astana leg...
The Kazakhstan Chess Federation, in close collaboration with FIDE, is leaving no stone unturned in their desire to provide a clean and...
The amount of decisive results in this tournament is staggering. Not a round has gone by without at least two decisive games,...
Grand Prix events are long and tiring. Eleven games plus travel essentially means two full weeks abroad, in addition to time allocated...
The sixth round of the Astana Women’s Grand Prix proved to be one of the most exciting, with four decisive games and...
The fourth round of the Astana Grand Prix was no less exciting than any of the previous rounds, even though only two...
Time trouble is a serious problem for chess players. Understanding how to balance thinking enough to avoid mistakes during the game, with...
“Today was a bloody round” were GM Ilya Smirin’s first words to me when we left the venue this evening. None less...
FIDE Women’s Grand Prix Astana 2022 kicked off yesterday in Kazakhstan. With two decisive games in the first round of the event,...
The first round of the first leg of the 2022-2023 Women’s Grand Prix kicked off this afternoon in Astana. Undoubtedly, a very...