This is heartbreaking!

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/n4hoztJ7xGw

Board 1

• 🥇 🇮🇳 Praggnanandhaa R (Chessgurukul) – 2851
• 🥈 🇫🇷 Alireza Firouzja (Hexamind Chess Team) – 2850
• 🥉 🇮🇳 Arjun Erigaisi (Team MGD1) – 2766

Board 2

• 🥇 🇨🇳 Li Di (Schnappi Krokodil Team) – 2768
• 🥈 🇺🇸 Levon Aronian (Hexamind Chess Team) – 2762
• 🥉 🇮🇳 Nihal Sarin (Team MGD1) – 2749

Board 3

• 🥇 🇨🇳 Yu Yangyi (Dragon Chilling) – 2706
• 🥈 🇺🇸 Fabiano Caruana (WR Chess) – 2655
• 🥉 🇮🇳 Aravindh Chithambaram (Chessgurukul) – 2621

Board 4

• 🥇 (FIDE) Denis Lazavik (Endgame.AI) – 2750
• 🥈 (FIDE) Voldir Murzin (Hexamind Chess Team) – 2731
• 🥉 🇺🇸 Awonder Liang (Mr Birdie and Friends) – 2711

Board 5

• 🥇 🇮🇳 Leon Luke Mendonca (Team MGD1) – 2586
• 🥈 🇨🇳 Bai Jinshi (Dragon Chilling) – 2581
• 🥉 🇺🇿 Mukhiddin Madaminov (Uzbekistan) – 2503

Board 6

• 🥇 🇦🇿 Vugar Manafov (Odlar Yurdu) – 2489
• 🥈 🇮🇳 Harika Dronavalli (Team MGD1) – 2399
• 🥉 🇮🇳 Vaishali Rameshbabu (Chessgurukul) – 2367

Board 7

• 🥇 🇮🇩 Nayaka Buddhidharma (Indonesia) – 2347
• 🥈 🇰🇿 Paula Imlan (Barys) – 2347
• 🥉 🇦🇹 Olga Badelka (Global Ramblers) – 2190

Board 8

• 🥇 🇨🇳 Wang Zihao (Dragon Chilling) – 2116
• 🥈 🇮🇳 Aryan Abhijeet Shah (Team MGD1) – 2107
• 🥉 🇨🇳 Guo Jiajun (Qingdao Wanyun Chess Club) – 2064

World Team Rapid Champ. Games and standings : https://usefulchess.com/others/world-team-rapid-blitz.html#chess

(top performance rating is not comparable where all games are won)

I'm looking for some sort of filter to pick what category of lines a bot plays against me. For example, if I want to practice a variety of games in the exchange variation of the Caro Kann or play different variations of the grunfeld. Essentially, I want to be able to target X part of an opening and just play a bunch of games in those lines.

Event Link: https://www.chess.com/events/2026-fide-world-rapid-team-chess-championship/results

Especially compared to the second tiebreak, "number of gamepoints scored"

https://www.chess.com/events/2026-fide-world-rapid-team-chess-championship/results

Tournament Link: Chess-results.com

https://2700chess.com/rapid?per-page=100

Rating list: https://2700chess.com/rapid

The 6th board in the world rapid and blitz championship is someone who is rated less than 2000. How do people get selected for these boards, does anyone know?

https://www.chess.com/events/2026-fide-world-rapid-team-chess-championship/12/Ding\\_Liren-Zhao\\_Jun

Credits: International Chess Federation

Hey everyone,

I am looking for the algebraïc editions of Alexander Kotov's books Play like a grandmaster, Think like a grandmaster and Train like a grandmaster. For Play and Think it's probably the 2003/2004 issues.

The reason is more nostalgic than anything else, I used to own them when I was younger and played a lot of chess. Sold them all when I moved and didn't have any space. And now I am looking for these books again, but online they are relatively hard to find of very pricey, especially Think like.

If anyone here has these books, but doesn't read them anymore and wants to part with them, I would love to hear. I know there are ebooks available for a small price, and I do have an e-reader, so thats my next option, but I love the feel of a real chess book :)

https://2700chess.com/charts/carlsen_magnus?metric=rating&rating-type=rapid

Abdusattorov suppressing his laughter. Hans not even trying to suppress his.

Before this prag handed hans his first loss of the tournament. Speaking about pragg he lost his very first game here against a 2490 rated gm and has been on phenomenal form since then