Arno Eliëns ♟

Here is the field in the 2026 TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament: – Magnus Carlsen, Norway – Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Uzbekistan – Arjun Erigaisi, India – Jorden van Foreest, the Netherlands – Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş, Turkiye – Nils Grandelius, Sweden – Andy Woodward, USA – Jiner Zhu, China

My youth hero #JanTimman has passed away. He showed his love for our game on many occasions. One can be seen here: youtu.be/tA5049mQk5c

Welcome Nodirbek Abdusattorov! The winner of the recent Tata Steel Masters, Nodirbek Abdussatorov from Uzbekistan, will play in the 2026 TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament in Malmo 1-7 May! Photo: Lennart Ootes

Welcome Magnus Carlsen! World number one and multiple World Champion Magnus Carlsen will play in the 2026 TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament in Malmo 1-7 May! More news to follow…

@AMKazarian @london_chess Gefeliciteerd!

My best performance so far. I achieved a WGM and an IM norm at @london_chess and my live rating has surpassed my peak rating from 9 years ago. This is a dream come true ❤️

At the World Senior Chess Championships 2025 in Gallipoli 🇮🇹, IM Alexander Reprintsev 🇺🇦 won the title in the 65+ category. At the prize giving ceremony he was totally surprised that this also would bring him the grandmaster title. Never too old to become a GM!

Here are tomorrow’s pairings of @tepesigeman Chess Tournament: Tan 🇨🇳 - Sindarov 🇺🇿 Erdogmus 🇹🇷 - Grandelius 🇸🇪 Rapport 🇭🇺 - l’Ami 🇳🇱 Ivanchuk 🇺🇦 - Robson 🇺🇸

Tiebreak games @tepesigeman will start at 17:15 CET. Abdusattorov, Erigaisi and Svidler will play for tournament victory. Full regulations: tepesigemanchess.com/tiebreak-regul…

Based on the @StaChesstics predictions of the results of the individual games you can calculate the likely and unlikely scenarios for the final standings of @tepesigeman. The chance of a 5-player tiebreak is e.g. 0.15%.

After the penultimate round of @tepesigeman, we have three players in the lead with 4/6: @ArjunErigaisi, @polborta and #AntonKorobov. Last round pairings (tomorrow 12:00 CET): Svidler-Keymer, Grandelius-Erigaisi and Ju-Korobov. Will we have tiebreak games at the end?

The drawing of lots @tepesigeman has shown interesting pairings for tomorrow: Maurizzi 🇫🇷- Keymer 🇩🇪 Korobov 🇺🇦- Abdusattorov Uzbekistan 🇺🇿 Erigaisi 🇮🇳- Ju 🇨🇳 Svidler ♟️ - Grandelius 🇸🇪

This weekend I am a Lecturer for a FIDE Arbiters Seminar in Terborgh, Netherlands. Together with Arno Eliens we teach participants from 3 countries. The place is very historical...

World Champion GM Wenjun Ju (photo: Lennart Ootes) will participate in the 2024 Tepe Sigeman Chess Tournament. The field: GM Abdusattorov, Uzbekistan GM Erigaisi, India GM Ju, China GM Grandelius, Sweden GM Keymer, Germany GM Korobov, Ukraine GM Maurizzi, France GM Svidler

From 15-17 March we will organise a FIDE Arbiter Seminar in the Netherlands. Main lecturer will be @Jrgen58908223 🇩🇪 (I am delighted to be the assistant lecturer) and we have a beautiful location with Castle Schinnen. More info: arbiters.fide.com/news/event/fid…

@anishgiri The chess set for your game tomorrow is ready! #TataSteelChess #Circustheater

Dear Anish - we have other pieces on offer too. How about a horsey?

@LennartOotes @peterdoggers I have tried to avoid your cameras for years, but this tournament I gave up…

The FIDE Grand Swiss in Isle of Man has been my personal favorite so far. I was involved with the video broadcast and the produced video content for the tournament and we've made some great material and innovations, which I will highlight below 👇🧵

The deadline for submitting (W)GM/IM title applications is 25 October. qc.fide.com/2023/10/10/tit…

The 2nd Levitov Chess Week is about to start in this beautiful venue in Amsterdam.

It is not in every job you can choose your own boss. Thank you @velemojstrica for making my life easy! And a big thanks to the rest of the team too, without your dedication I would be suffering. 😉 #YouthOlympiad #BestArbitersTeamEver 📷 Lennart Ootes