The third round tie-breaks started with 8 matches on the 11th of September at 3 pm local time. After two rapid games 5 encounters were over and Baadur Jobava, Richard Rapport, Evgeniy Najer, Ding Liren and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave qualified for the next round. To finish the game with a checkmate is a rare chance for [...]

Pairings for Round 4. Game location will be changed for Round 4 matches. IMPORTANT: Games will be played in RUSTAVELI hall on the 2nd floor of Hualing Hotel. Games start at 3PM local time. WHITE FED. TITLE RATING vs BLACK FED. TITLE RATING Svidler, Peter GM 2756 Bu, Xiangzhi GM 2714 So, Wesley [...]

From 2012, when I became the Deputy Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs of Georgia, till nowadays, I have brought around 20 million USD for chess: We have organized top events like Grand Prix, Women Grand Prix (twice), Women and Individual European championships, European Youth and World Cadets Championship, FIDE World Cup and next year [...]

World Champion Magnus Carlsen leaves the World Cup after he drew his second game against Bu Xiangzhi. In a must win situation he tried to find some resources to complicate the game but the Chinese Grandmaster sacrificed a rook to force a draw by a perpetual check. Vladimir Fedoseev defeated another top seed – Hikaru [...]

Publishing Pairings for Round 3 Tie-breaks Game 1. Tie-break games start at 3PM on September,  11 2017. WHITE FED. TITLE RATING vs BLACK FED. TITLE RATING Najer, Evgeniy GM 2694 Caruana, Fabiano GM 2799 Aronian, Levon GM 2802 Matlakov, Maxim GM 2728 Lenderman, Aleksandr GM 2565 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime GM 2804 Grischuk, Alexander GM [...]

32 players came to the playing venue today to compete in the third round of the World Cup in Tbilisi. 10 minutes before the start of the games the Chief Arbiter Tomasz Delega asked GM Anton Kovalyov to observe the dress code set out in the regulations and requested that he change his shorts accordingly [...]