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European Women’s Chess Championship 2026 is set to take place from 24 May – 6 June in Batumi, Georgia! 🏆 #chess #ewcc2026 ♟️The event gathers 166 players coming from 32 European federations, and will be played in 11 rounds, swiss system. The top seeds are: IM Stavroula Tsolakidou 🇬🇷, IM Yuliia Osmak 🇺🇦, IM Ulviyya Fataliyeva 🇦🇿, IM Lela Javakhishvili 🇬🇪, IM Mai Narva 🇪🇪, GM Anna Ushenina 🇺🇦, GM Bella Khotenashvili 🇬🇪, IM Meri Arabidze 🇬🇪, IM Dinara Wagner 🇩🇪, and IM Nurgyul Salimova 🇧🇬. 🔗Detailed preview: europechess.org/european-women…

Another English GM has been born. With a solid first name to boot 💪 Well done Harry! Great stuff 🥳

We're less than a week away from the biggest women's Swiss of the year: the European Championship! The Top 6 women in Europe are absent. Anna Muzychuk in particular is playing Norway Chess instead! s1.chess-results.com/tnr1368962.asp…

A huge congratulations out to our WICF-Chessable Scholar, Clio Alessi, for becoming a European Champion at the European School Chess Championship this year. Clio is the youngest Italian & the first Italian female player, to win & become an ECU European Champion! ❤️♟️

Huge congratulations to Harry Grieve who, just minutes ago in Budapest, achieved his third and final GM norm. ♟️🏆 with a 2600+ PR ACongratulations to England’s newest Grandmaster elect! 📸 Photo from the 2024 Isle of Wight Chess Congress by @anuboon

Congrats to 24-year-old WIM Yan Tianqi (2360) on winning the Chinese Women's National Championship outright! 🇨🇳🥳 I think this means she's guaranteed a spot on the Olympiad team! s2.chess-results.com/tnr1389459.asp… 📷: CCA

Congrats to Aamuktha Guntaka on earning the FM title mid-way through the Lecci Open! 🇮🇳🥳 She only started playing chess in 2022! 🤯 s1.chess-results.com/tnr1412881.asp… 📷: Aditya Sur Roy

Last week's star is also this week's star! 🌟 13-year-old Aamuktha Guntaka just made her 1st WGM norm last week in Sardinia and looks potentially on track for another in Corsica! s3.chess-results.com/tnr1412881.asp… 📷: ChessBase India

(comic) Plan B, anyone?

Looking for a chess sparring partner 😊♟️ Someone 2000+ rated who’s down to study openings, analyse games, suffer through blunders together and pretend we “saw the tactic all along” 😭

JUST IN: WFM Deborah Quickpen wins the Nigeria Chess Olympiad Qualifier 2026 Women's title with 7.5/9, climbing 33 rating points to 2174, the highest rating ever recorded by a Nigerian woman in chess history.

The Turkic Team Chess Championships start tomorrow in Astana 🇰🇿♟️ Teams from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Türkiye, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan will compete in a very strong 7-round team event. Happy to represent Kyrgyzstan again ❤️

Update on the "I have all 3 IM norms, but need 2400 for the IM title" squad! 🇺🇸 Jennifer Yu (2358) 🇰🇿 Liya Kurmangaliyeva (2353) 🇰🇿 Xeniya Balabayeva (2329) 🇨🇦 Maili-Jade Ouellet (2325) 🇮🇳 Rakshitta Ravi (2321) 🇵🇱 Alicja Śliwicka (2315) 🇰🇿 Amina Kairbekova (2302) 📷L Ootes; KCF

You people need to meet her mom, the support level is insane. There’s something different that happens in the mind of a child, when they get maximum love, support and even push from their family.

Your experience in chess deserves a bigger stage! WR Chess is expanding globally - and we are building one of the strongest professional structures in international chess. We are looking for people who understand elite competition, international events, operations, partnerships, and the responsibility of moving our sport forward at the highest level. Our international team is already more than 50 professionals strong and continues to grow rapidly across the world. If you want to help build the future of chess — not watch it from the sidelines — we want to hear from you! Send your CV to jobs@wr-chess.com or contact me directly. Let’s talk!

Last week, 13-year-old Aamuktha Guntaka told ChessBase India her current goal was to become a WGM by the end of the year. 🇮🇳 She just made her 1st WGM norm w/ a round to spare in Sardinia! She can also upgrade to an IM norm w/ a draw in Round 9! s3.chess-results.com/tnr1251111.asp… 📷: CBI

🇧🇪 Un hommage à un grand champion. La première édition du Mémorial Luc Winants aura lieu à Bruxelles le 9 mai, en mémoire du grand maître belge disparu en 2023. De nombreux joueurs, dont Étienne Bacrot, Marc’Andria Maurizzi et Alexandra Kosteniuk, seront présents pour saluer son héritage, et tenter de décrocher le titre de Champion de parties rapides de la Francophonie 2026. 👉 europe-echecs.com/art/memorial-l…

Congratulations to the historic all-female team, She Plays To Win Lionesses A, on their Division 2 win and promotion to Division 1! 🏆

I believe @SPTWchess is going to be the first all-women's team in any top-flight league in the world!

She Plays To Win Lionesses are promoted to Division 1 of the 4NCL UK National Chess League! Back to back promotions-go girls! Only female squad ever in the 4NCL 33 year history #girlpower @4ncl @ecf @FideWomen @FIDE_chess