of his last three games to take first place. The second edition of Shamkir Chess took place 16–25 April 2015. World champion Magnus Carlsen, former world...

01889°E / 40.82972; 46.01889 Shamkir (Azerbaijani: Şəmkir), known historically as Annenfeld, is a city in and the capital of Shamkir District in western Azerbaijan...

40°49′57″N 46°1′35″E / 40.83250°N 46.02639°E / 40.83250; 46.02639 Shamkir District (Azerbaijani: Şəmkir rayonu) is one of the 66 districts of Azerbaijan...

Memorial (2010 joint and 2014 Blitz) and Shamkir Chess (2016 and 2017), as well as the winner of 2018 Biel Chess Festival where he beat reigning World Champion...

2018. Doggers, Peter (28 April 2018). "Carlsen Wins Shamkir Chess After Quick Draw With Ding". Chess.com. Archived from the original on 28 March 2020. Retrieved...

tournament Shamkir Chess Shenzhen Masters Schlechter Memorial Silesian Chess Congress Sinquefield Cup Staunton Memorial Tal Memorial Tata Steel Chess Tournament...

Championships, GRENKE Chess, Zurich Chess Challenge, Bilbao Chess Masters Final, and Shamkir Chess. GRENKE Chess Classic (Baden-Baden): Viswanathan Anand began the...

winner Magnus Carlsen. In April at Shamkir Chess 2014, a six-player double round-robin tournament held in Shamkir, Azerbaijan, in memory of Vugar Gashimov...

Table". Shamkir Chess. 28 April 2018. Archived from the original on 28 May 2016. Doggers, Peter (7 June 2018). "Caruana Wins Norway Chess". Chess.com. "Ринат...

Shamkir Chess. Archived from the original on 26 April 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2018. 46th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess-Meeting 2018 The Week in Chess "2nd...

Chess Champion Garry Kasparov. As of 2014[update], country's home of Shamkir Chess a category 22 event and one of the highest rated tournaments of all...

+1−0=13, the only candidate without a loss at the event. April 2018: Shamkir Chess 2018, finished 2nd with 5½/9 (+2–0=7). August 2019: He finished second...

Rapid Championship and Chess Olympiad without winning any tournaments. In April, Radjabov competed in the annual Shamkir Chess tournament and finished...

the fifth edition of Shamkir Chess, finishing eighth with a score of 4/9 (+2–3=4). Topalov has competed on first board at nine Chess Olympiads (1994-2000...

Major chess events that took place in 2019 include the Tata Steel, Shamkir Chess, Grenke Chess Classic and Norway Chess, all won by World Champion Magnus...

tournaments, including the annual Shamkir Chess super-tournament in memory of Vugar Gashimov (1986–2014) and the Chess World Cup 2015. The total number...

Azerbaijani GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov who won the Shamkir Chess tournament. In June 2017, So scored 4½/9 at Norway Chess. He rebounded from seventh place at the...

edition of Shamkir Chess, finishing ninth with a score of 4/9 (+0–1=8). He played in the gold medal-winning Azerbaijani team at the European Team Chess Championship...

Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (most years) Biel Chess Festival (most years) Norway Chess Shamkir Chess Capablanca Memorial (most years) London (1862) Hastings...

The Dutch Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: 1. d4 f5 Black's 1...f5 stakes a claim to the e4-square and envisions an attack in the...

Championship FIDE Grand Prix 2014–15 FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2013–14 Norway Chess 2014 Shamkir Chess Sinquefield Cup 2014 Zurich Chess Challenge 2014...

him"". Shamkir Chess. 2015-04-24. Retrieved 11 October 2015.[permanent dead link] "After game five it could start from the beginning". ChessBase. 2013-09-25...

fifth edition of Shamkir Chess, finishing tenth with a score of 2½/9 (+0−4=5). As of 2022,[update] Navara won 9 national blitz chess championships, most...

of Shamkir Chess, finishing fifth with a score of 4½/9 (+1–1=7). In October 2018, his team AVE Novy Bor finished second at the 34th European Chess Club...

mirror that of the World Chess Championship. She played in the Vugar Gashimov Memorial, a category 20 tournament held in, Shamkir Azerbaijan, from 26 May...

Events in chess during the year 2015: This is a list of significant 2015 chess tournaments: 26 May: Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura clinch the top...

is often invited as a commentator to chess tournaments and publishes articles in specialized sources. · Shamkir Gashimov Memorial 2014 (English) · Khanty–Mansiysk...

The 2021 chess calendar was again disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and because of this many chess OTB tournaments were stopped, but major events that...

Major chess events that took place in 2016 included the Women's World Chess Championship 2016 between Mariya Muzychuk and Hou Yifan, won by Hou Yifan...

Chess Championship 2018. Magnus Carlsen won the match on tiebreaks and retained the title of World Chess Champion. There were two Women's World Chess...