Events Database

240 historical macro events · 2010–today

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DateEvent
Sep 29, 12Fide Grand Prix hots up as grandmasters chase £134,000 prize
Sep 22, 12Walter Browne's Stress of Chess breaks the mould for related literature
Sep 15, 12Armenia capture third gold from four attempts at Istanbul Olympiad
Sep 7, 12Russia face a battle for gold at the Istanbul Olympiad, as England collapse
Sep 6, 12Checkmates: how artists fell in love with chess
Sep 1, 12Russian team hoping for improved performance at Istanbul Olympiad
Aug 25, 12Ulf Andersson arrests career decline with return to form in Geneva
Aug 22, 12Svetozar Gligoric obituary
Aug 18, 12The year 1990 is proving an all-time vintage for chess births
Aug 10, 12Magnus Carlsen closing in on Garry Kasparov's all-time rating
Aug 10, 12Olympic lessons for the economic cycle
Aug 3, 12Stephen Gordon and Gawain Jones do battle at British Championships
Aug 3, 12Wizards and warriors: the Lewis Chessmen who inspired Harry Potter
Jul 27, 12Andrew Paulson reveals grand plan to take chess into the digital age
Jul 20, 12David Howell and Gawain Jones experience contrasting chess fortunes
Jul 14, 12Collapse by Magnus Carlsen benefits Sergey Karjakin at World Rapid
Jul 12, 12Chess impresario hopes to bring back the Fischer v Spassky glory days
Jul 7, 12Britain's Nigel Short the grandmaster for all continents
Jun 29, 12Enter the Winton Capital British Solving Championship
Jun 23, 12Magnus Carlsen reaffirms world No1 status with victory at Tal Memorial
Jun 15, 12Luke McShane shocks world No2 with some imaginative chess
Jun 9, 12Women's chess enjoying a surge in popularity, particularly in Georgia
Jun 1, 12Huge prize fails to inspire Boris Gelfand to victory over Vishy Anand
May 30, 12Anand remains king of world chess as Gelfand's time runs out
May 26, 12Vishy Anand breaks championship record with rapid Boris Gelfand defeat
May 25, 12Barbaric Genius – review
May 19, 12Flexibility of 4NCL allows top players to be multileague mercenaries
May 14, 12Alan Turing: "I am building a brain." Half a century later, its successor beat Kasparov
May 12, 12Vishy Anand and Boris Gelfand begin their world championship series
May 5, 12Fabiano Caruana continues quest for No1 at Italian team championships
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