Fabiano is peaking just in time for the 2020 Candidates Tournament–an eight-player double round-robin tournament where the top 8 players in the world will compete in Yekaterinburg, Russia from March 15 to April 5, 2020 for the opportunity to challenge world champion Magnus Carlsen for the title.
Overall at 2664, Hou Yifan is now the #75 strongest rated chess player in the world!
Hou Yifan relinquished her Women’s World Chess Champion title in 2018 to pursue her studies at Oxford, and played only a few Classical Chess games in 2019.
The 2020 Women’s World Chess Championship between World Champion #2 ranked China’s Ju Wenjun (rated 2664) and her challenger, Russia’s #4 ranked Aleksandra Goryachkina (rated 2579), took place in January 2020 in two parts–one part held in Shanghai, China and one part in Vladivostok, Russia.
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Chess Rules For Students Workbook
An instructional workbook designed for students learning the game of chess. Click here to learn more!
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Checkmate! Ideas For Students
An instructional workbook containing tactics in worksheet format used to checkmate--like Pins, Sacrifices, Removing the Guard, Attraction, Clearance, and Attacking Flight Squares!