Indian Grandmaster Vaishali Rameshbabu (8.5) emerged the champion ahead of Kazakh GM Bibisara Assaubayeva (8.0) after the 14th round of the FIDE Women’s Candidates 2026 at the Cap St Georges Hotel & Resort in Pegeia, Cyprus…
Uzbek Grandmaster Javokhir Sindarov with a stunning 9.5/13 score won the FIDE Candidates 2026 with a round to spare after the 13th round at Cyprus. In the women’s section, GMs Vaishali Rameshbabu (India) & Bibisara Assaubayeva (Kazakhstan) led the table with 7.5 points…
GMs Zhu Jiner & Vaishali Rameshbabu led the FIDE Women’s Candidates 2026 while GM Javokhir Sindarov led the Open section after the 12th round at the Cap St Georges Hotel & Resort, Cyprus…
GMs Javokhir Sindarov (Uzbekistan) and Vaishali Rameshbabu (India) led the FIDE Candidates 2026 after the 11th round at the Cap St Georges Hotel and Resort in Pegeia, Cyprus…
You know Titled Tuesday. Next is Freestyle Fridays!
Posted on January 16, 2025 BY Michael Ludwig
Chess.com has announced they will be starting “Freestyle Friday” on January 24th, at 11:00 a.m. ET / 17:00 CET. These new events will be very similar to Titled Tuesdays, in an 11-round blitz format made available to titled players, but in the Chess960/Freestyle variant which has a scrambled starting position. Each week will include a $1000 prize fund.
The release shares that this is “another fruit of Chess.com’s recently announced partnership with Freestyle Chess, the organization led by German entrepreneur Jan-Henric Buettner and GM Magnus Carlsen.” Freestyle Fridays are another push towards the renewed version of chess of which Magnus has become so fond.
Graphic via chess.com
